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To the Editors:

PRIDE I PRJ T I've ju r been reading the laresr CC: Magazine and never have I been o proud ro be an alum. My Feeling that

onnecri ur ollege ha per i renrly improved has grown over rhe decade since I graduated. Bur the currenr i ue f um mer 2005) ha three new irem char are che fro ring on the cake. Fir r, we've ju r had a near-record-breaking crop of applicanr . econd, i on the exclu-ive list of ollege With a on cience.

You can'r bear an in ricucion of higher learning where "education ... isn't only about private gain: it' about the public good." And third, the Board oFTrusrees ju r approved a Green Building Policy for new and renovated campus building . The sound, long-term thinking chis rep­re enr is exa rly what i mi ing in o much deci ion-making in our counrry.

Hurray for onne ci uc ollege! Thanks ro everyone who i leading co ever greater a hievemenc.

Ricki Chapman McGlashan '68

an Mateo, alif.

ERRATA I thoroughly enjoyed the latest magazine.

I have re ided far from onnecr1cuc for almo r che la r quarter of a century, it i my only link ro the hool, and the magazine doe ic ju ti e.

ouple of points: Unincencionally and rill too easily, 1

ran inco ar lease three proofing error : I) Berc (as in "Lahr") mi pelled "Bure,"

page 29; 2) la s of 2009 appear ro be the

third, nor econd, as rared, mo r elective la in history - rhe graph on page

9 show ocher years ar 35 per enr and 34 percenr, wich 2009 ar 33 percent;

3) a aprion on page 26 peaks of aone- hilling note "primed ... in I 9ch-cen-

rury ew London" - that eemed kind of late to me to till be u ing hilling , so I looked do ely at the photo and aw rhar ic wa printed I /I/ 1781 - definitely the 18th rather than 19th century.

Jeff Modzelewski '77 alve ton, Texa

Thank you, Jeff We should have known the first name of the actor who pl.nyed the

owardly lion in "The Wiznrd of Oz" And a slip of the mouse probably resulted in the wrong century in the shilling caption. As for your point about the selectivity, our graph could use further expl.nnation. electivity is highest (or best) when the percentage of admitted applicnnts is the lowest. The Class of 2009, with an admit rate of 33 percem, is second only to the '/ass of 2004, which had an admit rate of 32 percent. The graph would have been more clear had we shown the percentage for 2004. - Editor

P EMF R DEA J H Here' omerhing I wroce a Few year ago about my fir r encounter with Dean Alice John on. What a great woman! I enjoyed reading all the remembrance in the e­new lercer.

Janet Matthews Fox '66

Lewi ville,

rood Up Broken Hearted gain

February 1963 Righc afrer exam break The me age lighc Aa hing

n the cinderblock wall of che dorm room A bright poc in a dull afrernoon That red light u ually mean Yale is calling A boy wanes you

The weekend i haping up.

Bue che Dean of Fre hmen Had placed rhi all When I get her on che line

he i ominou ly hearty

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And a bit offhand For a high offi ial Who doesn't know me from dam.

" top by my office, Janet And make ic rhi afrernoon IF you would."

Trotting off ro Fanning Hall nxiou , bur mainly puzzled

What could he wanr wich me? Whac did a Dean do, exactly?

hon-haired, pecracled, abrupt he u her me in

"You might wane ro rake chi irring down," he ay

Pointing me to a chair and Preparing me for the blow.

"Do you moke? Have one of mine I'll ger righ c ro i r You flunked Phy ci."

he give me a couple of econd To rake it in Bue I can'r I figure she s gor ir wrong Fingered an innocent by rander.

They aid you can't Runk IF you rum in all rhe lab I did rhe lab

nd also, there are a hundred Fre hmen in that horrible cour e Are you telling me ninety-nine Are marcer rhan I am?

Bewildered, di believing and betrayed 1 ic there haken, haky.

"Well, ir' nor che end of rhe world" The Dean, old hand at rhe e deflowering

urns ic up bri kly "Here have a igarecce

nd ler' figure our What we can plug rhi with I'm chinking pani h lit Thar could get you an easy A."

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After the storm

A college community takes action

y now you have probably heard u ay chat at onnecricur

ollege we educate rudenr co"put the liberal arr into action as citizen in a global ociety.' You might even recognize char

that i our new m1 10n rare­ment. Bur I omerimes wonder if the meaning of the expre ion i as obvious as I chink it i . What do it mean co put the liberal arts into action? Hurricane Katrina, or more accurately the

ollege community' r pon e co it, provides a perfect example.

ur srudents omerime ay college is preparing chem for the 'real world." Katrina has hown chem that the world they live in now i all coo real. The storm is al o reaching them char the lessons they learn here - especially how co think creatively and analyze problem aero many di cipline - have practical u e in that world.

The re pon e to Katrina has beenbroad and p r onal. We are not only rai -ing money for di aster relief, but welcom­ing displaced students, offering employ­ees a week of paid leave if they want co volunteer for the rebuilding effort, and asking hard questions about environmen­tal, public policy and ociecal i u po ed by the corm.

rudent , faculty and local r idencs have rea hed our co a rudent who e home was exren ively damaged. We are waiving tuition for five rudenr from cw

rlean - four are from oucheasrern onneccicut and one i from Loui iana.

Twenty of our tudents plan to travel co ch ulf oast during pring break as vol­unteer helping Habitat for Humanity

build houses. We anticipate char everal employees will al o use the week' paid leave co help with the rebuilding effort.

Many campu group are collecting money and upplies for hurricane relief.

The Arboretum old mum and pump­kin out ide rozier-William one day recently, the ollege' tholic commu­nity i donating weekly offering from

aturday ervice for the entire emester, and the rudent overnment As ociacion

i organizing everal fundrai er . T he ffice of Volunteer for

ommunity ervice i collecting well as water, blan­barrerie , baby item

We have already had everal campus panels and forums co di cu the environmental, o ial,

racial, emotional and p ychological effect of th corm, and are al o con id­ering a community day fo u ing on Katrina' aftermath. Individual profe or are incorporating Katrina into their reaching in variou ways. One of our phy i profi or , for example, intend co reach a cour e next emesrer on hurri­cane forecasting and preparedness, the appropriate and acrual re pon e to Katrina, and rebuilding v . relocation.

In addition, 1 have asked faculty to ubmir proposal for an interdi ciplinary pring- emesrer cour e char would focus

in ome way on the storm. This TRJ P (Traveling Re earch and lmmer ion Program) cour e would include a journey co the ulf oasc for r earch.

The per onal respon e of the liege community, including alumni, how me what a do e community chi i . Dr. Harry Pigman '74, acting chief of raff at the

cw rleans Veterans Administration Ho piral, made it out of the city three day after the torm. ne of cl1e fir r thing he did afterward (from Baron Rouge) was co end a note co thi maga­zine co lee hi classmates and friend know he i K. After a cory about Dr. Pigman appeared in the eptember i ue of the electronic new lercer we end co alumni,

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP, TERRORISM EXPERT BRUCE HOFFMAN '76 OF THE RAND CORPORATION GAVE A TALK ON

"FIGHTING BACK, THE FUTURE OF TERRORISM" TO A PACKED EVANS HALL. HUNDREDS ENJOYED A PICNIC LUNCH AND

SUNSHINE ON THE GREEN. A CANINE MEMBER OF THE FAMILY ENJOYS A HUG. WOMEN'S SOCCER DEFEATED WESLEYAN

OPPONENTS 2-1. PICTURED HERE IS RACHAEL SCHEFRIN '08, FAMILY PHOTOS, PAINTING T-SHIRTS AT HARVESTFEST,

AN UNEXPECTED VISIT ON HORSEBACK FROM THE MEN'S WATER POLO TEAM WHO PLAYED A GAME AGAINST HARVARD

LATER THAT AFTERNOON, AND TO TOP OFF THE END OF THE DAY, HOT FUDGE AT THE ICE CREAM SOCIAL

PHOTOS BY JON CRISPIN

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Coping with Katrina The campus communiry responds

staff, faculty and rudenr wasted no rime in repping up their effort co upporr the vic­tim of Hurricane Katrina and put rhe tragedy into per pec­rive. Tho e effort in lude:

oncerned rudenc re enrly � rmed a new rudenr organization the Hurricane Katrina Relief Effort, to con olidare relief effort on campu , rai e fund and expe­dite donated go d to hurricane victim .

During Fall Weekend, ho red a panel of faculty, raff and rudenr to ana­lyze the environmental, ocial, racial, emotional and p ychological impact of the di aster.

Pre ident orman Fainsrein recently announ ed char the allege will help fund the development of pro-gram and initiative de igned ro addre and re pond ro rhe erhi al, political, e onomical, racial, p ychological and geo-graphical ramiticarion of Hurricane Katrina on ew

rlean and rhe ulf oa r. The program and initiative char have been developed or are already under way include:

rearion of a pre idenrial cask for e ro make the best u c of the inrellecrual capital of the

allege a well as coordinate it volunteer and charitable effort .

Development of a Traveling Re ear h and lmmer ion Program (TRIP) char would in lude a eme ter-long our e fo u ing on an aspect of ulf

oasr regional life a it inter ecr with Hurricane Katrina and the recovery respon e now under way, oupled wirh a ollege-pon ored trip r rhe area dur­

ing pring rece . The allege regularly upporr TRIP for

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JOint rudent-faculty travel ro an off­ampu location.

lmplemenrarion of a ommunity­wide "community day" ro fo us on the region and rhe i ue in the aftermath of che tragedy.

Pre idem Fain rein al o announced char the allege i allowing employee -with approval from their upervi or and a allege enior admini rraror - to rake a one-week paid leave co perform disaster relief work. Additionally, employe will be allowed co u e accrued vacation co supplement this paid rime off.

The allege recencly enrolled four di pla ed rudenr from Tulane Univer icy and one from Loyola niver icy- ew

rlean and ha waived tuition for the

rudenr for rl1i eme rer. wo of che cu­dent are full-rime re idenc at che

allege; the ocher three will take lasse a special day rudent . Four of the rudcnt call ourhea tern onne ri ur home, while the fourth i from Loui iana. The

allege received more than 30 phone call from di placed srudenr eeking informa­tion about enrolling at chc allege.

The allege' emer for Teaching & Learning ha earmarked our e develop­ment fund for profes or who are inrer­e red in tea hing an inrerdi ciplinary cour e in the pring overing pecifi elemem of the tragedy. imilar our e wa developed four years ago in the wake of 9/ l I.

The ffice for Volunteers 111 Community ervi e ( V, ) has collected nearly 1,000 for hurri­cane relief, which was donated ro the American Red ro , Habitat for Humanity and the

onne cicur Food Bank. V al o c !leered ca e of water, blanker , carp , barrerie , baby items, roilerrie and non-per­i hable food item and deliv­ered chem co the arional

rmory for hipping. rudenr overnmenr

o iarion, through the ffi e of rudenr Life, has rai ed approxi­

mately 500 for hurricane relief, a large portion of whi h can1e dur­ing fundrai ing at a re enc a cap­pella concert on campu

The ampu haprcr f Habitat for Humanity i plan­ning an alternative pring break to ew rlean ro participate in rebuilding effort .

LOCAL MUSICIAN JUAN MADRY PLAYED

A TRIBUTE TO NEW ORLEANS PRIOR TO

COMMON HOUR

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The Katrina blues

After the storm: "This is gut check time"

acuity, raff and rudents gath­ered to share their reactions to Katrina' aftermath - as well as their fru cration - at a campu

ommon Hour rwo weeks after the storm struck the ulf region.

Reminding chem of the culture of ew rleans and the role it plays in

American life, attendees were greeted by che jazz riff: of axophoni c Juan Madry, a

ew London musician. Then even dif­ferent peaker , including a geologi c, a historian and a psychologi r, offered variation on a theme - what next for ew rleans? Mab egresc, the Fuller-Maachai Profes or of ender and Women's rudies, reflected on the emescer he'd penr at Tulane Univer ity lase year. Ac chat time he was evacuated in che hour before Hurricane Ivan lase epcember. he recalled being cold chat the levees ould with rand a Category 3 torm,

but not acegory 4. "I was al o cold chat I 00,000 peo­

ple could noc gee our on their own if che storm hie. Then I aid, well, then you've de lared tho e people expendable," said egre c. After reeling off a list of ca­n n that e cabli hed the magnitude of che is ues around Katrina, egre c quoted a caremenc from jazz mu ician and ew Orlean native Wyncon Mar ali , who hold an honorary doctorate from

onnecci uc ollege: "This i gut check time for all of u as American ."

David Cancon,Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Profe or of History, ob erved chat after the hurricane, i sues of race, clas and poverty uddenly "hie main rream media," bur chat, in face, these i ue have been under di cu ion for decade . He emphasized che importance of li cening co the n ws from all per peccives, especially from the viewpoints of chose wich whom you may not agree.

eologisc and As ociace Profes or of Physics Douglas Thompson, who ceache a geophysic cour e called " acural Hazard and Human ," cook a firm po i­cion on the future of ew rlean as we know ic. "The question is nor so much will ew rlean be abandoned but when will ic be abandoned?" he aid. Thomp on emphasized chat che city' position - six feet below ea level - is further jeopardized by the fact chat we live in an era when ea level is ri ing.

"There' a lot of talk about rebuilding, and there's an emotional attraction co chat," he said. "but there has co be ome thought on how co protect people in the future." Thomp on aid chat ic is certain chat the frequency of hurricane will increase in future year .

Profe sor of P ychology Jeffer on inger reminded everyone of che role of

geography in human identity. "What gee washed away i not ju c phy ical rrucrure but also what you are as a per on," he aid.

Al o participating in the panel were Patrice Antoine '06, and Karie Wyly '06, who e family home was de croyed by Aoods in Bay c. Loui , La.

The panel was led by Tracee Rei er, as ociace dean for multicultural affair .

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"Stuff is not important, life is."

Nineteen people, 15 turtles, eight cats, six

dogs and one parakeet crowded into a

moving van bound for Baton Rouge three

days after Hurricane Katrina tore through

New Orleans.

Among them was Dr. Harry Pigman '74,

who in the days leading up to the storm had

been acting chief of staff at the New Orleans

V.A. Hospital, helping to direct the evacua­

tion of patients who were in the hospital, in

nursing homes or receiving home care.

Now the doctor sat with his father, wife

and two daughters and their four pets ready

to flee Louisiana, the state where he was

born and his great-great grandfather served

as governor before the Civil War. Unable to

transport the entire family before the hurri­

cane, they stayed through the violent wind

and rain. Their home survived without so

much as a broken window. The breach of the

levees eventually flooded the basement and

yard but left the main living areas intact.

The doctor's family solicited the help of

a local nursing home, which had the moving

van, and joined neighbors for the trip out of

the city. The group navigated through streets

flooded with five feet of water and had to

stop frequently to clear fallen trees from

their path.

"The first part of the ride was tense,

because nobody was certain that we could

get out," Pigman said. But the group arrived

safely in Baton Rouge. The family moved

into a hotel for a couple of nights before a

relative picked them up and took them to his

home in Houston.

With a stable place to stay, the family

found a school for their 13-year-old daugh­

ter Isabel to attend eighth grade in Houston.

Unable to enroll 16-year-old daughter Zosia

- named after Zosia Jacynowicz, a CC

music professor Pigman was close to - in a

high school there, the family decided to sep­

arate temporarily.

Zosia and her father flew to Little Rock,

Ark., where they moved into the garage

apartment of a friend. He was able to

resume work as medical director of South

Central Veterans Health Network Data

Warehouse, and she has started 11th grade.

"Learning how fragile things actually are

has been a lesson for all of us," he said.

"People have been so wonderful everywhere,

I think that this has restored or refined our

faith in the goodness of others, and in the

long run will be a significant growth experi­

ence for our kids."

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A school year swept away by Katrina Teacher Jared Lamb '03, sees children who are champions after disaster

n rhe lase Friday in ugu r my biology rudenr ar bram on

enior High hool each planred rhree por of blue pole nap bean for a lab on phoro­ynrhe i . Abram on i rhe

large r publi chool in ew rlean and re ource are minimal: My 1 Och grader ' ' laborarory" was a former hi rory cla room, equipped wich lanced de ks which fir neirher cheir rexrbooks nor upplie for an experiment. In chi , my third year reaching in room 219, che meager ur­rounding and unleveled de ks had numbed me ro laborarory ca ualcies: ce c cube rolling and exploding co the Aoor, entire container of potting oil becoming landmine on rhe whire rile, the formaldehyde from fecal pig pouring clown from che pla ti pre ervacive bag like iagara Fall , giving che enrire econcl­Aoor hallway rhe rench of dis eccion.

My rudenc are from e rern ew rlean and 92 percent African American,

rhe majority poor. a teacher my aim i ro give rhe kid hands-on experience , make chem ace, rather rhan imply Ii ren. Thar humid Friday was no different: my rudenr worked eagerly in their

make hifr laboratory, a embling their bla k pla tic pot and porting oil and hypoche izing whether bean would grow bener wich full expo ure ro unlighr, copped with tin foil, or with red aran Wrap rubber-banded over their lid . Afcer chool I watered che fre hly planted eed , wary chat che ew rlean hear

might suck rhe plane dry over rhe week­end. I wa urpri ed at how well thing had gone rhac day: no bean had been onverred inco peeding proje rile , rhe

spray borrle were not turned inro makeshifr quire gun , che rudenrs had been o dilig nr and careful during rhe day' experiment char rhere hacln'r even been one dire-filled por char had made rhe

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de krop lide and jumped ro rhe Aoor. What lirrle debri had collected on che ground was wept up by member of my fourth-period las ac rhe end of rhe day. "My chird year of rea hing," 1 rhoughr ro my elf. "Man, rhi i going ro be a good one." Bur my rudenr would never return, and neirher would I.

le wa n'r unril Paul called me, a week after Katrina' wrath, char I realized my srudenrs would never be able ro return ro rhe bean rhey had so delicately planred char Friday. Paul wa one of che runner from rhe cro s-councry and track reams I coa hed.

"You didn't hear abour char? oach, Abram on' long gone! ollap ed ro che ground. Apparently it couldn't rake rhe weight of the warer."

Hi word lammed inro me. Ir wasn't the building or che new,

donated mi ro ope char had me mo r concerned. My hearr ached for rhe people who had evacuated their home and ought helter at Abram on High chool,

one of che icy-wide de ignared ire for rho e who couldn't evacuate. I pi cured my rudenr trapped in che familiar hall­way as che water crepe up che ides of the building, eeping ic way in ide unril che encire edifice collap ed. My eyes welled with rear . I went ilenr.

"Hello? ... Hello? ... You there?" Paul asked, mi caking my ilen e as a lap e in

ingular's ervice. "Yeah, Paul, I'm here," I choked.

"Have you heard from your family? Your parenr ? How's your sister?"

"Well, they've relo ared ro Mi sis ippi for the rime being. Bur our hou e i gone."

I imagined my parencs' hou e in corr , onn., pictured what my life would be

like if during my enior year in high hool che entire rown was flooded, every

posses ion and remnant of my lifi van­i hed. My per pe rive on what has hap-

pened in ew rlean i a far cry from what the media report . Along wich Paul' new , former rudenr have cold me their urvival rorie . Their account are di cane

from rhe rori of looring, pillaging and di curbing f che peace hown on che new . o, che e are che rorie of people who e home and familie have been dev­a rared bur who e heart continue ro remain trong. They are ourageou and re ilienc. There' hel ea, my former ru­denc and a nationally ranked high chool

"My third year of teaching,"

I thought to myself. "Man,

this is going to be a good

one." But my students

would never return, and

neither would I.

long jumper from my girl crack tea.in, a young woman of giggle and mile who called me, icy-voiced, ro lee me know char he'd eva uared ro Tenne ee. he'd been eparared from and unable ro conracr her

parent who'd rayed ro protect cheir fam­ily bu ine . Day lacer he found her mom at a helter in Baron Rouge. Lacer he cold me, "I really \ anr ro go back ro bram on. Ir' nor going ro be the ame

being on a new ream, bur I got ro win ome new medal and crophi co make up

for che one char were lo r when my hou e was Aooded."

1 got an e-mail from De in, the cap­rain f my ro ounrry ream, who had afely eva uaced with hi family ro Bacon

Rouge bur had lo r hi hou e. "My mom cold me I had 15 minutes ro pa k up before I left. JI I brought wa three er of loche ," he wrote. De pice hi lo e , he remain po icive. 'Tm crying nor ro lee

that Katrina girl mes up my enior year," he explained. 'Tm purring some of my past behind me and crying to rarr a new life. I chink ir' gonna be fun."

"Ain't no doubt in my mind. I'm going back," Abram on' head ofrball coach Ricky Knighc told me as he sac in the Hou ton onvention enter. "I lo c my hou e. I have family mi sing. It's nor easy, bur char' were I belong. Give me 1x month and I'll be back there."

Of course, noc everyone ha been o

oprimi tic. ome are bitter and feel betrayed. They are leaving for good with no intention of returning. Few could blame them. Leaving, for ome, will be an opportunity. Many of my rudenc had never traveled our ide of the city' bound­arie : they know rhe project and Bourbon creer. Leaving may give chem more option than they previou ly had.

As I channel urf through television cations, the media footage up et me.

The vase majority of tho e rranded by Hurricane Katrina are not looter or the one hooting at innocenc civilian . They are rho e trying their harde t to rebuild, reunite and urvive.

I followed the en acionalized new footage a I eva uared to northern

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Loui iana and, evencually, to a friend's hou e in hicago. After a week there feeling di placed and di illu ioned, I h ard of the plan to as emble evacuation chool for di placed ew dean tu-

dent in Houston. My srudencs inspired me to stay connected to ew dean in read of returning to my parcnc ' house in onnecticut. My roommate Todd and I left hicago at 6 a.m. and drove 20 hour to Hou ton o we could attend ori­entation on Thur day morning. I needed

to reconnect with my students and get involved with the ew deans people.

A excited a l am about the pro peer of reaching and helping the children of my community rebuild, whac they have already endured and learned through chi experience far outweigh anything I will be able to teach them about photosynche-i or the rep of mito i .

It was not unril la t aturday, when official opened up the Asrrodome from a temporary lockdown thac I was able to reconnect with ew dean re ident ince my own evacuation. As I walked

through the building, I expected the media portrayal of chao . To my urprise, the arena was well organized, and the mood was calm. Folding cot lined the

ground Aoor covered with quilts, blan­kets, reddy bears and the occasional leeping evacuee. There wa a children'

play area rhar re embled a kindergarten cla room, filled with tacks of board games. Differenc parts of the building were roped off and compartmentalized inco different ections: food, clothing, FEMA regi rracion, a nur es sracion, public school enrollmenc. one of rhe line were long. Yee the prevailing mood wa one of incredible lo and di hearr­enment - noching do e to whac Barbara Bu h had perceived.

I heard a voice from che ground Aoor hour, " oa h Lamb!"

I saw Johnny, a firecracker of a student who I knew from the multiple rimes he had raced down my cla room' hallway like it was Inters care 10, rugging on a girl' braids and bouncing away or ru�ning from the booming voice of hi fru traced third-period reacher. He was excited to see a familiar face. Bur as we began to talk hi initial excitement dwindled. His hou e had Aooded, and he and hi family had to evacuate to the econd Aoor, then to the roof o they could signal the heli­copter for an emergency r cue. As he poke he eemed completely deAared, void

of energy. His ey rrayed downward as if embarrassed by the path of his life. "What are you going to do now?" I asked.

"My momma' gonna put me in chool in Hou ton for now. It eem like a good city," he aid. His head raised up until hi eyes mer mine. He cracked a mirk and continued, "We ju r have to do what we can. Make the mosc of the iruation."

Johnny' optimistic pursuit of a new life in Hou ron is the reason I'm here, too. The children I reach from ew rlean Ease have alway had few opporruniries.

ow they have lo r homes clothes and family member . Yee they are champion in overcoming ob cacles, whee.her ir i preparing experimenc in ill-equipped lab­oratories or finding rrengrh and purpo e when their homes are convened into unken hip . De pice everything, my rudents are determined to grow. Their

live will blos om, each in their own way. My place i with chem. -Jared lamb '03

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Community honors faculty at Convocation

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wo profes or have received i:wo of ' mo r prestigious award , one for r earch and the ocher for reaching. The award were made

epr. I during rhe ollege' 91 r onvocarion ceremony, ignal­

ing the rare of rhe academic year. Marc Zimmer, Barbara Zaccheo

Kohn '72 Profe or of hemi cry, wa given the 2005 ancy Barson isber Ra h Faculry Re earch Award for excel­lence in academic re earch. unil Bhatia, a ociare profe or of human develop-

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menr, r ceived rhe John . King Fa ulry Tea hing Award for reaching excellen e.

Zimmer, who in 200 I wa given the John . King Faculry Teaching Award, in May wa appointed co rhe Barbara Zaccheo Kohn '72 Endowed Profes or hip for xcellence in Teaching.

In 2002, he was named the first hri rian A. John on Di ringui hed

Teaching Professor. Zimmer i al o a Henry Dreyfu Teacher- holar and the program chair for rhe inorganic divi ion of the American hemical o iery.

Hi area of pecializarion i i norgan­ic computational hemi cry. Zimmer's book, Glowing Genes: A Revolution in Biotechnology, published rhi year, i the fir t popular cience book on jellyfi h and fireAy protein , whi h can help fight can­cer, reare new produ r , improve agricul­ture and even combat rerrori m.

Zimmer' colleague, unit Bhatia, joined in 1999. Hi re earch focu e on rhe development of elf and idemiry

within the context of po rcolonial migra­tion globalization and formation of rran national diasporas.

He i finishing work on hi book, Terms of Difference: Culture, Identity nnd the !ndinn-Americnn Dinsporn, which is ba ed on an exren ive, two-year ethnography of rhe Indian diaspora in ourhern onnecricuc.

Bhatia has publi hed more than a do1..en article and book chapter on i ue related to language, elf, immigrant iden­riry and culrural p ychology. Hi arci le have appeared in many academic journal .

ancy Ra h wa the Lucy McDannel '22 Profes or of Arc Hi rory and taught at for 23 year . Her father, eneral Dillman Ra h, and her hu band Frank Turner, Yale Universiry

professor of hi rory and a onnecricur ollege rru ree, e rablished a re earch

fund to be pre ented annually ro one of the most outstanding and highly regard­ed member of the fa ulry.

The late John . King was a beloved profe or of erman who e warmth and humaniry rou hed all who knew him. The award bearing hi name wa e rab­lished by friend , colleagues and former student ro recognize rho e reacher/ scholars whose high standard of reaching excellence and concern for rudenr reAecr King' own ideal .

The keynote addre by Lindsey Harlan, profes or of religiou studies, appear on page 6.

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A wilderness experience - with MTV, too

They climbed up ropes and rock walls, scaled walls and trees, zipped across hundreds of yards of field, jumped from 50-foot platforms to catch trapezes. When these freshmen were finished on Friday, they had four days of bonding experiences that will carry them through four years at CC.

A demonstration, please? Seated in a circle beneath the ladder from

which their colleagues descended the zip line, the students played a game. "Can you do this?" they asked each other. Fingers spread, they tapped each finger: "Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, whoops, Johnny, Johnny, whoops, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny." Nancy Wallace '09 of Greenwich tried. Nope, they told her time and again, that wasn't right. Baffled, she asked what she was doing wrong?

Finally, the students stood and lined up. "If you watch us do it all together, you'll probably get it," said one. At the ends of all the Johnnys, they crossed their arms in tandem, the one step she had missed.

That form of team-building is the driving force behind CC's Outdoor Orientation Program (COOP). now in its 19th year. Freshmen are invited to partic­ipate in the program in the days before Orientation. It is a modified Outward Bound program that is challenging and fun. Students get a feeling for the Connecticut countryside and the spirit of CC before the hectic pace of the fall semester begins.

"Our newest students gain personal aware­ne�s and self-confidence, develop leadershipskills and responsibility toward others as well as the environment," said Theresa Ammirati P'91'94,

interim dean of the College community. "Students have an opportunity to share, trust, solve prob­lems, communicate, persevere and, as an added bonus, meet their classmates through an invigor­ating and fun experience."

Karla Wurzel '09 of Avon agreed. "It's a good way to meet people so that when we start out we already know a bunch of people," she said.

A group of 13 students got to meet a different bunch of people on Friday when a crew from mtvU came to tape a show for "The Dean's List." The cable channel is seen on campuses nationwide.

Host Gardner Loulan "woke up" with several students huddled in sleeping bags on a platform deep in the hilly woods, announcing with flourish, "It's Connecticut College's Freshman Adventure Orientation!" Between announcing the Top 10 music video countdown, Loulan and a two-person team worked in a breakfast cleanup around the campfire, the trek from camp site to zip line area and interviews with the first two students to brave the zip line.

"Nervous7" Loulan asked Emily Lawton '09, leaning toward her with his microphone. Soft-spo­ken, the New York native allowed as how she was a bit on edge but excited as well. As she began her ascent up the ladder, Loulan kept up a lively teasing banter, which lightened the tension.

As A.J. Briccetti '09 of St. Louis stood on the platform high above the ground, Loulan kept it up.

"Hey, A.J1," he called, getting the student's attention. "Wait! Don't look down!"

"The Dean's List" segment appeared on mtvU daily for two weeks in September.

DAVID KYUMAN KIM, visiting

assistant professor of religious stud­

ies, has been named the inaugural

director of the Center for the

Comparative Study of Race and

Ethnicity, the College's sixth aca­

demic center.

He will work with students, fac­

ulty and staff as well as the broad­

er communities to promote the

center's work. It will be structured

like the other interdisciplinary cen­

ters and include SATAs, TRIPs and

internships as well as relationships

with consortia, foundations and

several CC academic and adminis­

trative offices.

"David will bring to this role

deep intellectual and administra­

tive expertise in the comparative

study of race and ethnicity, partic­

ularly in Asian American Studies,"

said Frances Hoffmann, dean of

the faculty.

Kim's manuscript, "Melancholic

Freedom: Regenerating Agency and

the Revolution of the Spirit," is

under review.

Among Kim's publications are

the essays "Enchanting Diasporas:

Asian Americans, Religion, and

Race" and "The Promise of Religion

for the Critical Consciousness of

Asian American Conceptions of the

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Yunnan troupe wins hearts Visit to United States is a first

T he fir t orch American tour of minority ethnic performer

. from

hina' Yunnan Provin e ki ked off ar on epr. 23 and 24 in Palmer.

"Yunnan Revealed: lndigenou Mu ic and Dance From hina' Land of

louds" features 15 mu ician and dancer who pre ent richly embroidered regalia and a fascinating en emble of cringed in rruments, Aure and drum .

ther performan e are raking pla e in ew York icy, Hanover, .H., reac

Barrington , Ma ., Burlington, t., and Wa hington, 0.

The Yunnan ar received a

hina/Mekong Project I 0,000 grant from the

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1an ulrural ouncil ( ro up-port the tour.

"We are grateful to rhe 1an ulrural ouncil for upporring a project rhar will

expo e o many people to ome of the mo c beautiful indigenous culcure of che world," said co-organizer Lw-Lan Wang, chair of 's dance department and director of hina Yunnan/Mekong Project ac

The tour i a pare of che larger inicia­cive, "The Mekong River: onnecring

ulcure Pr jecc," which involve che ollege, the mich onian In cirucion, and

American and A ian inscirurion as a pare of a program co re earch, upporc and pre enc rhe culcural rradirion of

STUDENTS AND FACULTY JOIN THE YUNNAN

DANCERS AFTER A DEMONSTRATION

Yunnan Province and che Mekong coun­rrie and to conne c rhe e rradirion co American audience .

The U .. tour i produced by hina Yunnan/Mekong Project ac in ollab-oration with the Kennedy enter, Hopkin

ncer, Oarcmomh College; Flynn enter for che Performing re and hina Yunnan Internacional ulrure Ex hange enter.

The A i a foundation upporring cultural exchange in che visual and per­forming arc between che United rare and ian counrric .

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Physician, heal thy waiting room Patients judge the quality of medical care by what they see

P atients' perceptions of the med­ical care they are likely co receive care a long time before they ever ee a doctor or nurse. Perception

are formed as they drive up co a facility, sic in a waiting room, and cake in the view from the building's window , according to Ann loan Devlin, May Buckley adowski '19 Professor of Psychology, who recently co-pre enced and publi hed a eries of researd1 article on medical facility design and vi ual cues.

"In the corn peticive beal th care arena, facility design makes a difference," Devlin aid. "Health care provider have long

thought that ilie only tl1ing char matters is delivery of care. However the phy ical environment is important to patients' ubjeccive and objective experience, a face

that empirical research supports." In the first project, Devlin and co­

re earcher Allison Arneill '96 found char people make jud�ents of che quality of care to be delivered by a physician based on their perception of rhe waiting room. The article, publi hed in ilie journal of Environmental Psychology, found char 205 participant perceived char a higher qualiry of care was expected if a physi­cian's waiting room was nicely furni hed and well-lie, a opposed co waiting room with no artwork and a generally cold appearance.

"When patients perceive char a physi­cian ... has put rime, thought and care into rhe environrnenc of the waiting room, it uggesrs that the physician mu t put the arne quality into ilie care chat i given ro patients," Arneill and Devlin wrote in char report, "Perceived Quality

of Care: The Influence of che Waiting Room Environment."

Devlin has recently publi hed a new book for srudents in ilie social science , tided Research Methods: Planning, Conducting, and Presenting Research.

The book published by Thomson

Wadsworth, is a hands-on scudenr-friend­ly text that addresses the practical aspects of one- ernescer ocial science research proj­ect , using examples from a variety of sources mac illustrate succes fut projects. The text covers tl1e full spectrum of reps in the research process, including idea gen­eration, tl1e selection of che research

design, finding appropriate measures, gar­nering approval from the institutional review board, recruiting participants, run­ning scaciscics and writing rhe paper at me end of the ernesrer.

Visit hccp:/ /p ychology.wadsworth.corn co learn more.

FRESHMAN SEMINARS

The topics range from sports to spirituality, from energy production to

English historical fiction. But all of the more than 35 freshman semi­

nars being offered this fall have one objective: teaching first-year stu­

dents the critical-thinking skills they need to succeed in college.

Those skills include the ability to synthesize information, formulate argu­

ments, write clearly, speak well and participate in classroom discussions.

The Center for Teaching & Learning held a series of workshops to

help instructors plan their courses and better understand the idiosyn­

cratic needs of first-semester freshmen.

"They can now engage in a lot of 'what-if' thinking," Michelle Dunlap,

associate professor of human development, said during one of the work­

shops. But she added that in the process of exploring options, 18- and

19-year-olds can overlook an obvious answer to the problem at hand.

Dunlap also said students are just starting to realize that everything

doesn't fit neatly into one theory or one box. "Life is full of inconsisten­

cies. People are full of inconsistencies ," she said. They have moods and

are different from one day to another. That can be a revelation for young

students, who are eager to pigeonhole things according to preconceived

notions, Dunlap said.

The seminars, which are being offered for the first time this fall, are

part of ongoing revisions to the College's general education requirements.

The seminars are designed to be "gateways" that introduce first-year

students to the broad variety of learning experiences that are available

to them both inside and outside the classroom at the College, according

to Dean of the Faculty Frances Hoffmann.

The goal is to create a small-group setting in which students can be

immersed in intensive, engaging intellectual exchange with peers and

faculty, and to deepen and underscore the skills they need for college

work, she said.

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A 50-million-year-old fossil unlocks clues to evolution of lakes

I n a recent co-di covery of 50 miHion­year-old fossils of a common freshwa­ter group of algae, Peter A. iver

harle & arah I� Becker '27 Profe or of Botany and director of the

environmental tudie program, may have unlocked clue about the evolution and environmental degradation of fre hwater lakes and the d1aracteri ti of lake ecolo­gy during ancient geologi time period .

The recent di overy of the algae -known as caled chry ophyte - add rhe single-cell organi m co rhe valuable inventory of living fos ii , which include hor eshoe crabs dragonAies and equoia crees. The fo sil , which today are globally di tribuced and common in lake in ew England, were found in core ample from between 313 and 4 16 feet deep in an area

known as the iraffe Pipe kimberlire depo it in Canada's orchwesc Territorie .

In addition to ix new and presumably extinct spe ies were the remain of organ­i m that appear remarkably like tho e found today.

Along wirh co-re earcher lex Wolfe at the Univer icy of Alberta, 1ver how that the caled chry ophyte ,

with rheir unique siliceou scale-like armor, have evolved little in 50 million years, urviving and thriving de pice environmental tre s and change -including impacts from climate change, a id rain and more recently, indu trial and re idenrial development.

Previou ly, the fo ii record of caled chrysophyces extended only a few rhou­and year .

"le' rill un !ear about the chry o­phyce' origin, but we do know chi fascinating group of organisms was around almo c back ro rhe Mesozoic ra - the rime of ch dino aur -

and ha evolved liccle in 50 million year ," iver aid. Until their find­ing , virtually nothing wa known about the origin of chi important algae group.

The finding was published in the May i ue of che fmernationnl journal of Pinnt ciences.

iver is a noted expert in limnolo­gy, which i che cudy of lakes and phycology, the cudy of algae . He ha al o focu ed hi re earch on acid rain and the effects of environmental ere s­e on aquatic eco y rem . - E

Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, to speak at Commencement

The first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai, will be Connecticut College's Commencement speaker at its 88th Commencement ceremony on May 21.

Maathai, a Kenyan veterinary science professor and environmentalist, is internationally recog­nized for her persistent struggle for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation. She is the founder of the grassroots Green Belt Movement, which was created in 1977 to curtail the effects of deforestation and desertification in Kenya. Today, more than 30 million trees have been planted across Kenya, and similar initiatives have been successfully launched in Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Lesotho, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. The movement has gone on to campaign for education, nutrition and issues important to women.

She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and was praised by the committee for taking a holistic approach to sustainable development that embraces democracy, human rights and women's rights in particular. In addition to being the first African woman to win the prize, Maathai is also the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, the first woman in Kenya to hold an associate professorship and the first woman in Kenya to chair an academic department.

The Fuller-Maathai Professorship in Gender and Women s Studies (GWS) at Connecticut College, was established in 1997 by alumna Cynthia Fuller Davis '66. A committee of faculty, students and

alumni chose the name for the new professorship which honors Maathai and Margaret Fuller, a prominent 19th-century social and political thinker. In 2002, GWS and the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies sponsored Maathai to lecture at Connecticut College about the Green Belt Movement and women's rights.

Later that year Maathai was elected to Kenya's parliament with 98 percent of the vote, and was subsequently appointed as assistant minister for environment, natural resources and wildlife in Kenya s parliament.

Maathai, known as "The Tree Woman" in Kenya, lives in Nairobi.

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Anne Bernhard, Connecticut College

assistant professor of biology, has co­

authored research on an elusive

ocean microbe that is now consid­

ered to be a major link in the world's

fragile nitrogen cycle. Her research

was published in Nature, considered

one of the world's most prestigious

science journals.

Bernhard and the research team,

which was headed by David Stahl of

the University of Washington, suc­

cessfully cultivated the tiny microbe

Crenarchaeota in the laboratory and

discovered some surprising facts

about the diet and lifestyle of these

microbes, which surf the seas in

almost unimaginable multitudes.

Crenarchaeota survive by oxidiz­

ing ammonia to nitrite. By the sheer

weight of their numbers, they are big

players in the world's nitrogen cycle

- converting ammonia into other

harmle s nitrogen compounds.

Additionally, their nitrogen-metab­

olizing genes look superficially simi­

lar to those of as-yet-uncultured

terrestrial cold-living Crenarchaeota,

which could indicate that a nitrogen­

based lifestyle originated in these

ancient organisms, rather than in

bacteria.

Bernhard, who joined Connecticut

College in 2004, is a specialist in

the role of microbes in marine and

estuarine ecosystems and their inter­

actions with other organisms as well

as with their environment. She has

authored or co-authored more than a

dozen journal articles.

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Commerce and culture:

Architecture and sociery on New London's State Street

A new exhibition, " ommerce and

ulrure: Archirecrure and ociery on ew London' rare treer" opened on crober 7

and will be on view at the Lyman Allyn Arr Mu eum through April I 0, 2006. Abigail A. Van lyck, Dayron

ociare Profes or of Arr Hi rory and Archirecrural rudies, i the gue r curaror for the exhibit. Her archirecrural rudie cudent are conducting interpretive rour

of rare rreer ov. 5-6 and Mar h 4-5. Featuring period phorograph , hi roric

map po rcard , painting and architectur­al drawing , " ommerce and ulcure: Architecture and o iery on ew London's rare rreer" documents and interprets the

archireccural and social development of ew London's major commercial avenue.

The exhibition relates the pecific derails of ew London architecture to larger trends

in American architecture and urbanism. As in many other mall American cities,

ew London's downtown i largely the

product of a building boom that began in the Vicrorian era and lasted - with ome up and down - until the rear Depr ion of the 19 0 .

" ommerce and ulrure: Archirecrure and ociery on ew London's rare treet" i predicated on the idea that we

can "read" the cultural landscape - ver­nacular rrucrure , architect-de igned building and everything in between - as a three-dimen ional textbook of ocial hi rory. Last year Van lyck assigned each rudent in her enior eminar to trace the

development of a different eccion of the ere c between 1850 and 1950. Each ·pro­

duced annotated map and a paper. The onnecticuc Humanities ouncil'

Cultural Heritage Development Fund awarded 19,387 to the mu eum in support of the exhibition and it relat­ed programming.

PROFESSOR VAN SLYCK ANO STUDENTS ON STATE

STREET PREPARING TO CONDUCT TOURS.

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The team behind the teams: CC's athletic trainers

hen Connecticut ollege arhleres need medical arrenrion, they can rum to an experienced trio of athletic trainer to attend to their needs. Cathy

Horne, who earned her bachelors degree ac Ithaca ollege and her master's ar Virginia, has been the head athletic train­er for rhe past 22 years.

Horne i as isted by Dale Robin on­ervai , a graduate of UConn, and John

Heck, a graduate of Penn race who holds his mascer's degree from East rroudsburg Un iversi cy. Robinson­

Gervais has been wi ch the program for 12 year while Heck is enrering his fourth. The passion and energy char rhis chree­some holds for che athlecic program and che CC srudenr-achlete keep rhem at the top of their profe sion.

"When I starred here we had 13 team , including gymnastics," Horne ay . Today, Horne oversees cwo full-rime achleric trainer along with a group of six student worker , who handle creacmenc for a 28-porr athletic program. More than 600

var iry athletes compete in the athletic program, and another 100 are members of conract-sporr club reams who also use rhe ervices of the athletic training room.

Horne e timace char her office han­dles l 4,000 trearmenrs a year. The raff

first column conrimied from page 3

many worried classmates e-mailed offers of help and upporc. (You can get the new lercer, if you don't already, by going to www.conncoll.edu/alumni and signing up for the C alumni online communiry.)

You can read more abouc Katrina on pages 6 to 9 of this i ue of CC- Connecti.cut

College Magazine. Our respon e ro the dis­aster help explain why The Princeton

Review named onnecticur College a "col-

also deals wirh about 700 injuries per year. Injuries range from minor ankle sprains to more erious case like frac­ture , concussion and life-threatening iruacions. Each member of rhe medical

staff has his or her area of experri e. Horne believes communicacion has been a key ingredient in rhe synergy among che three.

"We are lucky char we ger along well," Horne noces. "We are a good ream within the achleric department ream. We calk about tricky injuries and consult each other."

Horne has observed many changes over che past rwo decade . Medical advances have made ACL rears and knee injurie more tolerable and have cue down the rehabilitation time. Horne has al o found char the rudent-athleres have become more competitive in recent year

lege with a con cience" in a new guide pub­Ii hed chi summer. Our emphasis on ocial responsibiliry and public ervice is apparent in how we live our lives on thi campus and in how we structure our academic program, both in and outside the classroom.

onneccicm ollege students do nor just think. They explore connections. The education we provide is service-oriented - and ir is clearly oriented toward mak­ing che world a berrer place. Our rudentshave an obligation ro do chis, as we all do.And they know ir.

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This rype of incense competition has led ro the treatment of more serious injuries and concussions.

"Athletes are much more willing to ri k their bodies, Horne ay . 'We have serious injuries, thing char we didn't ee IO year ago. We have co be knowledgeable and be prepared to deal wid1 these change ."

Horne feel forrunare co work with a coaching staff char puts the health and wellness of its athlete first.

"I feel Like we have a very good work­ing relationship with che coaches in regard to injurie ." Horne says.

Educating scudent-arhleres about their bodies is an important a peer of achlecic training.

"One of the most important pares of our job is co teach athletes co take care of them elves," Horne say . "Athlete hould know when ro rest and when co work. You can't train hard seven day a week. We reach chem about anatomy and how they heal."

Parr of chis proce i the empowering of rhe cudenr-arhlere chem elves.

"We cry co include achlece in the decisions of when d1ey hould or should not play, becau e ulcimarely rhey will need co be responsible for their own healrh." - WT

uilding hope for Thai tsunami victims

by Tracy Thomson Teare '87

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Like many Americans, Mach Arom '89, caught the news of the December '04 Asian tsunami on television and watched the death tolls rise in horror. By ome cwisc of face, chi Thai American who grew up with a foot in each country and typically spends che holidays with family in Thailand, was ar home in New York when disaster struck 11 Pacific countries and took the lives of more than 160,000 people. "f called my parent ro make ure they were in Bangkok, watched relevision, and cried to ger information from the web. The videos were horrifying. I was simply scunned," he recalls.

As the shock began to wear off, Arom aw pasr the immediate outpouring of international aid and began ro form a plan. "Ir was imilar ro how I felr about being in ew York for 9/ I ] ," says Arom. "I had co do something. Boch cragedie were in my backyard, in different geographic ways. The scale was

huge, [and I knew] omething chi big would fall off the radar of the main cream media relatively quickly because ir happened so far around che world."

While many relief organizations were collecting dona­cion ro send over eas, Arom and hi brother Dan wanted to gee dollar into the right hands and deliver manpower for mailer-scale project with immediate impact for local

Thai. They formed the Phuker Project a nonprofit vol­unteer organization to upport local communirie on Phuker - a tropical island roughly the ize of ingapore, ome 500 miles ouch of Bangkok - and in ocher ouch-

em provinces. Arom had traveled to Phuket co vi it extended family (chank:fully, hi great aunt, aunt , uncles, cousins nieces and nephews on the island were unharmed in rhe di aster), and vacation counde rime ince age 6. o with an in ider' knowledge of the culture

and geography, and help from five dedicated volunteer , he had the Project Web site up and running by early January, planned an official kickoff meeting and landed the fir r ream in Thailand in February.

Project Phuket has rai ed more chan 60 000 dollar in grass-root efforts such as fundrai ing concerts and arr hows, selling tationery and e-mailing friend . More

than 550 volunteers have igned on, and four work reams totaling 134 have worked in Thailand, with two more trips scheduled for epcember and Ocrober. Each volun­teer bears the co c of getting around the globe and back and donate at lea r two weeks of their time to building and rebuilding. Projects ranged from relatively simple -the first wa ro con cruet a bathroom with four plywood wall - co rebuilding homes and chool , as well as building boar , playground and holding one-day arr therapy workshops for Thai children in conjunction with The ArcReach Foundation. One of the mo c dramatic: a parrnership with the Bangkok Phukec Ho piral ro rebuild rhe Kamala Pre- chool. Thi community center and chool, two years in the making, was due to open for 200

children the day the tsunami destroyed ic. While Arom is quick ro deAect prai e for hi effort to

hi dedicated tribe of volunteers ir's clear char he' given a cremendou amount of energy to the cau e. pearheading rh Phuker Project could easily be a full-rime job in itself, yec Arom manage chi alongside a career in che fast­paced ew York adverti ing world, as executive creative director ar Foore, one and Belding. "There were a lot of late hours," he say , recalling day when he worked another three to four hours after hi work day ended at 9 pm. "The good thing was char rhe lace night ynched up well wich people in Thailand who could help coordinate hoed , Aighcs, cool and upplie ."

The quick connections of e-mail and the internet, backed by extraordinary energy, made for a quick ramp up. Arom' local connection and knowledge ofThai cul-

ture helped chem snake through red rape and corruption to gee volunteer ro Phuker and engage in meaningful projects. Key volunteer include Mike Wardlaw of the

ollege's phy ical plant ream, who e con truction know­how and willingness ro cale daunting heights has proven critical and am Bottum '89, who headed up che second group in Thailand. Indeed, volunteers sprang up from all corners of Arom's life, and beyond.

Giving back is a value char Arom traces to le on learned at Connecticut allege, from che lace dean of freshmen Joan King, who raught him char everyone you meet has omeching to reach and hare, co former presi­dent Claire Gaudiani '66 who in rilled in him the value of community involvement. "The e sen ibilities were fine-runed at onneccicur allege, and everything I do has doc char connect to the premi e chat there i rill o much for me ro learn from o many ocher people " say Arom, who plan ro keep sending reams over eas as long as the volunteer and cash allow.

The candour lesson from chi venture? The giving nature of che human spirit. "Friends from college, work, high chool, friends of friends, and people I had never met rook uch leap of fairh and traveled around the world ro work on thi relief project. I remain very rouched by rhe cruse they gave ... I'm honored by rhe face char they wanted ro help the Thai people, and gave up vacations, and put up with hear, dirt, and 24-hour Aighrs to do chi for che urvivor . How imply incredible."•

Two more work trips were organized in the past month. There will be additional trips in November and December. ee hrrp://www.phukerprojecr.org

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Six months in Uganda

by Julie Novak

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Gaida Ozols Fuller '7 4 , who works as a clinical study manager for Pfizer Inc, was walking through the company's Groton, Conn. facility one day when she paused to examine some photos on the wall. The pictures, taken by her co-workers, depicted their experiences working to combat di eases like AID and malaria in Africa, Central America and Asia as pare of Pfizer's Global Health Fellows program.

"le sounds silly, but it was one of tho e things where I stopped and thought, 'chi feels right. Thi i what I wane to do,"' he said.

Fast forward several months and Fuller has become one of chose volunteers. Through the fellowship she was paired with Healch Volunteer Over eas, a non-

profic dedicaced co improving health care in developing councries through education. From January co June chi year he wicnessed povercy and suffering fir c-hand in Kampala, Uganda where he worked ac Mulago Ho pica!, an ofcen-crowded place with patienc camped ouc in the hallway . Ir was her fir c vi it co Africa.

"Ir's very startling," she said, co see people who are hungry and crawling in the dire treecs. "le make you very appreciative of what you have when you return to che Uniced caces." Bue among the cragedy, she aid, there was great beaucy in and outside of Kampala, both in the land cape and the culture. The people were gracious and welcoming, she said, and curiou about western culture.

Ac Mulago Fuller s work focu ed on women's health i sues. he created a health education program for taff, who were adept at teaching patients through verbal inscruccion, buc had little wriccen information for patiencs to cake home. o she produced a series of eight brochures, each focu ing on a differenc health i ue uch as nutrition, family planning and infu.nc care. he al o de igned anoth­er brochure for the care of burn victim in the burn incensive care unit. Bue her education duties extended beyond the written word, and he al o mentored two

nur e incerns who graduated from a local universicy nurs­ing program.

"le got me out of the women's health arena and gave me an overview of what the other needs at the ho pita! were," he aid.

Fuller caught and created materials on how to properly monitor fV Auids and blood produce and became more involved in ocher areas of the ho pica!, creating a pre en­tacion for caff on infection concrol and aseptic technique.

Fuller, who majored in wology, credits for broad-ening her view of the world and providing a olid founda­tion for her career.

Although Fuller is back home in Waterford onn. her experience in Kampala is still fre h in her mind. he keep in couch with tho e she befriended ac the ho pi cal via e-mail. A friend wroce to her recently co report on the progress of a paincing project in the hospital 's pediatric ward, which Fuller was able co make a realicy with the help of volunceer and Pfizer funds. When he lefc Kampala, the walls were white. ow they are brightly painced, adding a cheery air to the ward.

"Every few days I gee another photo," Fuller aid. "It makes my day." •

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A monch afo:r graduacing from Connecticut College, her father died after a IO-year baccle with hepatitis C, a disease he contracted through a blood transfusion in his

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nacive Japan. Ac the rime, rhe Japanese government did noc require screening for che disease: and there is still no cure.

1odar, wic.h her father's memory in the forefront of her mind, Shimada has made a career of helping others in waging the war against HIV/AIDS and ocher pre\'enca­ble diseases.

"Helping ochers with a rerminal illness like cancer and AIDS live happily for the remainder of their lives helps me ease my own pain," she said.

Working for Futures Group International, a company char helps design public heal ch programs for developing countries, Shimada spends 50 percent of her rime travel­ing rhe globe ro help improve the quality of heal ch care in countries chat need it most. She is a senior research asso­ciate at the company, and is primarily working on AIDS Relic( a project funded through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEP FAR). T he project is designed ro boost medical treatment wich a cosc-dfcc­tive approach and rrear 137,000 people over che next five years. She is responsible for helping hospitals in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania improve their health management information systems co capture accurate and timely <lam required by the U.S. governmenc.

Shimada meets wich doctors, nurses and hospital scaff one-on-one and also leads training programs.

"'When I cell people what [ do, it is difficult co explain

in East Afric

what a 'monitoring and evaluation' professional is. I chink mv job is co build che capacity to underscan<l the impor­ra�ce of data and co reach people rhac ir is impossible co plan for the rurure and treat patiencs effectively without knowing what's happening in the program and with patients," she said.

Shimada goc her start in the field as a volunteer. Afrer her father's <leach, she worked as a research assistant for the Center for AIDS Research in New York City in the evenings and on weekends. (By day, she worked as a legal assistant in a law firm.) She also studied to become a cer­tified hospice volunteer.

Shimada's rnluntcer experience and desire ro help oth­ers in an incernacional serring - she was born and raised in Japan - led her to pursue a 1\laster's degree in Health Science at Johns Hopkins University. She spent her sec­ond year of the program in Chennai, India conducting AIDS research. Prior co joining Furures Group, she worked for another company analyzing research, but it wasn't che right fie.

"While ir was an extremely valuable experience, it made me realize char I needed ro spend rime in rhe field,'' she �aid. "I love interacting with the scaff and patients at che hospital. It's my favorite.: aspect of my job."

Shimada chose CC because she was arcracte<l co the right-knit familial atmosphere of the Toor Cummings Center for Inrernarional Studies and the Liberal Arcs (C!SLA) program. A CISL\ scholar, she also studied psr­chology and German.

Shimada lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband Collin Keeney '98.

Gloria Hollister Anable '24, a zoology major who worked with oceanographer William Beebe, was the first woman to explore deep-sea life in the first bathysphere. At the time of her death in 1988, she held the women's deep-descent record. Anable went on to help found the Nature Comervancy in 1953. he led the campaign to preserve the Mianu.s River Gorge, the Conservancy's first project, and was awarded the Connecticut College Medal in 1970. - BN

Anable is mentioned prominently in Descent: T he Heroic Di covery of the Abyss (Brad Matsen, Pantheon Books, 2005). The following excerpt (pages 99-100) describes her fim dive, in 1930.

the exeitemen o the quarter-desee t II er ekled aero s the

dee , Beebe cal ed for quiet nou ced tho he and Barton

he \\JS 30 year old char day, and in honor of her birch­da} and to thank her and Tee-Van for rhei r service ro che d parcment, they would make the nexc dive in the Baehr phere. Holli cer had been o caughr up in the excircmenr and tension of her role as che life link ro the Bathy phere char he had completely forgoccen rhe ignifi­cance of the dace. T he ea condition were rill perfect,che phere was in rop hape with plenty of oxygen for ahorc dive, and Holli cer and Tee-Van didn't have co be

asked twice. T hey dove into the phere. Barton and a

crewman wung the harch cover into place and pounded home the main bolt , Beebe aid farewell through the center hole and rwisred in the wing bole.

In ide, Tee-Van adju red che oxygen flow and clamped the earphone onto his head, while Hollister rook Beebe' u ual position ac rhe center ob ervacion window. he was an ichthyologi r, and though he had made dozen of helmet dive co depths of i.xry feet, chi wa a dream come true. he felr much a.fer and calmer rhan he had on che Ready's deck listening ro che disem­bodied voices of Beebe and Barron, and knew char her entire life had led her ro precisely char moment.

For the next half hour, Holli cer dutifully called up her observations of pceropods, shrimp, jellies, and fish co Beebe on the cop ide telephone, and he and Tee-Yan joined che exclu ive club of deep-ocean explorer . Holli cer marveled ac a white, ti uelike creature he knew ro be an eel larvae called leprocephalus which was infi­nitely more graceful in it own world [than] it had been in her laborarory aquarium. T heir dive ended ac 410 feet, deep enough for Holli cer ro er the world depth record for women bur not coo deep ro worry Beebe chat his magnanimou gift mighr become a tragedy. Hollister and Tee-Yan pleaded for another hundred feec, bur Beebe wouldn't budge. He realized as he rood dry on the deck char a de cent in the Bachy phere was more dangerou bur nowhere near as frightening as raying behind with omeone you loved in the depth below.

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A band of Egyptian sailors sent by the king on an expedition to Punt, the "God's Land" - somewhere in the southern Red Sea region, arrived on the sea coast. Digging into rhe hifting and they made rwo cave , where they cored anchor oars, rope, ves el of food ar the end of che expedition. They also sec up lime cone tablets covered with hieroglyphics that mentioned their voyage. Then they covered everything up wich and and went away.

Four thou and year lacer, Kathryn Bard '68, an as o­ciare profe or of archaeology at Boston Univer icy, reached her hand into the excavated hillside and into a man-made cave. In a joint project sponsored by B.U. and Univer icy of aples "I.: riencale," Bard and co-leader Profes or Rodolfo Farrovich al o found a cond much larger cave rwo day lacer, one char might have been creat­ed as a hrine or temple. After completing a partial exca­vation, and do urnenting one of the mo r important finds of its kind - the fir r intact pares of a seafaring ves­el ever recovered in Egypt - the ream did ju t whar the ailor had done everal millennia ago. They buried the

cave entrances and departed, caking the secret of their location with them.

"I have been excavating at different ires ince 1976, and prior ro chi , have found rnoscly broken porcery and scone cools," ay Bard, who feel rewarded by the ignifi­cance of chis latest find.

Whatever further ecrets are hidden in the caves will have ro wait, at least until this corning December. 'Tm going back ro Egypt ju r as oon as I fini h grading blue books," says Bard, a faculty member ar B. U. ince 1988. Bur a hundred or o blue books aren't the only ob tacle for her ro surmount: there's also the red tape, miles and miles of ir.

All excavation in Egypt mu t be given clearance by the uprerne Council of Antiquities, a government agency. Archaeologi ts working on the Red ea coast must obtain separate perrni sion from the Egyptian army, navy, coast guard, and air force. Additionally, they muse have an armed guard with chem ar all rimes, a nec­essary precaution in an era of terrorism. All excavated materials are relinqui hed wirh due speed ro the uprerne Council, just as 0011 as che archaeologist can document the finds - through notes, photographs and drawings.

When the ream return to their hidden cav ac Wadi awasi , the ire of the pharaonic port of aww, rhey will

bring along a nautical archaeologist, and Bard believes char they will be able ro recon truce an image of the entire 70-foor ship from what they have found ro dare. They'llal o bring an expert on wood, ince the well-preservedtimber and reering oar are made from cedar.

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"Cedar doesn't grow in Egypt," says Bard. Ir grow ar 1,000 meters above ea level in what are now norchw t yria and Lebanon. The ancient timber were taken by hip

ro the Egyptian Delea, and then up the ile ro opro , where there was a hipbuilding yard. Then the hip were di ernbled. he recount the explanation char was care­fully in cribed on a lirn cone rele found at the location: the hip pieces were carried (on a I 0-day trek) aero the Eastern Desert ro the Red ea port of aww by a huge expedition of over 3,700 men.

The porcery found in rhe econd larger cave, next ro rwo piece of a ship' ceering oar, dares ro the early ew Kingdom. The only known eafaring expedition ro Punt from this period wa during the reign of Queen Har hep ur, between 1473 and 1458 B . .

"There are derailed relief: of a naval expedition in her rem pie," noce Bard, who i hoping char the apparent convergence of everal line of evidence will give her team a rare opportunity ro link the find in the cave with che larger rirneline of Egyptian hi rory.

When she was lase interviewed for CC Magazine in 1993, Bard was pictured up ro her neck in a pit burial in Aksum, Ethiopia, a decade-long project funded by

ational eographic char he completed three year ago. Prior ro char she excavated ar everal sir in Upper Egypt. he earned the ational eographic ociery's hairrnan's

Award for Exploration for her findings in Ethiopia and Egypt. "It's what I'm most proud of in my career," he ays.

Bard was born in Boston bur rai ed our ide of hicago. Among her schoolrnar was none ocl1er than

Hillary linton, he recall . In addition ro being in pired by the Field Mu eurn, he al o remember going ro her public library as a child and "checking our every ingle book they had on ancient Egypt."

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A fine arc major ac onneccicuc allege, he made long-lasting friendship among both her class­mate and faculty. ( he vi iced many clas mace chis past ummer, including one or rwo who had gotten in couch with her after eeing new cories about her find, which was reported in the media worldwide.) Bard earned an M.FA. from Yale University's chool of Arc in 1971 and rwo master' degrees from the Univer icy of Micl1igan and che Univer icy of Toronto. About char rime he cook a year off co travel - an unforgettable trek from airo co ape Town bytrain, boat, truck, bus and car. In 1987, he wasawarded a Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology from theUniver icy ofToronto.

Editor and compiler of che Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, publi hed in 1999, he is in che final cages of revi ion of another major work, An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, co be publi hed next year by Blackwells Publishing in Oxford, UK.

Undeterred by corpion , terrorise , and and-corms, Bard has no plan co retire. "If anything, my

research interests have expanded with chi lace r find. I just wane co keep on doing what I am doing for as long as po ible." •

A LIMESTONE STELE DISCOVERED AT THE SITE HOLDS

CLUES TO ITS ORIGIN.

Port-Au-Prince was suffering from the effects of the annual rainy season and Hurricane Ivan when Ann Rumage Fritschner '77 arrived in Haiti on a humanitarian mission last fall.

Who cares

about Haiti? Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross had both pulled out of Haiti recently because of escalating violence. I came co Haiti as chaplain co the orch arolina-based Mi ion Manna ream of do tor and caregiver . My role was co provide piricual care co che ream members and, ar best, co help in che clini .

Mis ion Manna is a nor-for-profit organization founded by cwo American women (one a college cu­denc at U - heville) and a Haitian man who pro­vide free medical care co malnouri hed children in Montroui . The organization had built a clinic with a cemenc Aoor and canvas ide a a transition ire while a permanent ho pita! for malnouri hed children wa low­ly being builr in Montroui abour an hour and a half from Pon-Au-Prince.

My pare on chi mi ion was mailer than the prover­bial drop in the ocean and yet it was important. ne per­on ar a rime I helped worm more than 600 children. For

a couple of month • their bellie will decrease in welling, rheir appetites will return, and, with the vitamins they received, their hair mighr rurn dark again.

In rrearing the e children I al o created a ituation where the children will regain their lo r appetite and their familie won't have enough food co feed chem. T he mo t well-nourished children will be the babie who are breastfed. And when che milk i gone, they'll gee wollen

by Ann Rumage Fritschner '77

bdlies and become lethargic and moan and whine a lit­tle. The men will leave their family in order to find work or food or money. Mothers will rurn to the few men available for comfort and possibly for a small amount of food or money. And AIDS will complicate rhe daily effects of hunger, diarrhea and lethargy. More children will either be "sold" into slavery or indentured to wealth­ier families, who might provide a bercer life for chem, or more will die and the future of Haiti will be lost to greed and lack of compas ion.

\falnucricion is one of the top rwo medical is ues chil­dren face in Haiti. The mher is ue is the lack of water and contaminated water. There is no system­atized water filtration sys­tem in the country, and most children suffer from worms caused by the bac­teria in the water. Rivers and streams are centers of social activity, baching, pb.y111g and sanitation. Thero:: are no sewers or sep­tic systems thac serve all c.he people of the major cities, much less those who live in the isolaced hill towns. o people u e rivers and streams for potable water as well as sewage systems.

Diseases such as typhoid, tuberculo is, worms, scabies and impetigo are easily preventable. Many of these dis­ease are also easily treatable, bur there are very few free clinics in Haiti, and most Haitians cannot afford to pay for a visit to a clinic or hospital for treatment.

In addition to all these problems is the problem of HIV ,ind AIDS. AID can compromise the immune sys­tem ro the point where ruberculosis, pneumonia, heart failure or some other di ease finds a host. However, according co various UN officials and World Health Organiz..ation, rhe prevalence of AIDS in Haiti is estimated to be se ond highest in the world, following ouch Africa.

During our visit, a man who had heard there were American doctor in the village of Fonn Bapci re brought hi\ two-day-old child co us. The man's girlfriend had died as she gave birch co their 2.5 pound baby. Her family members were all dead, and so were his. This father had no idea how co care for a child and even if he had che knowledge, he had no extended family to care for the bahy while he cried co find work. So a baby named Emmlnuel (who in che States would have been in incu­bation and on intravenous feeding), has a father wich no monC), no education, and no way to provide his son wirh a good life. Baby Emmanuel has a lot of obstacle to over­come 111 order to live much le s to rhrive.

What are the answers? Magic wand answers include a benevolent dictator who has a Harvard MBA and Yale medical degree. he would develop mutually beneficial economic partnerships for firsr world countries including rhe United States to invest in Haiti. he would create a road system that connects the major cities and pores with the harvest regions; a medical care system that provides free basic health care essentials for families; a free educa­tion system chat is mandatory through high school or its equivalency; a free water ystem char works as well in cities as in the country; and electric, technology and communi-

cations systems that work 24/7. And he would market Haiti co the vacationing public who are looking for an exquisite island paradise doe to home.

What comes first? Aid and charity from individuals and churches and well­meaning people like u , political pressure from the powerful who can make the American government rake a much more active interest in Haiti, safe water, nutri­ent-dense food aid, engi­

neering skills to build a transportation system for cars, donkeys and the majority of the country who a.re on foot, and technology to tie the country together and unify Haiti for busine s opportunities.

Why won't this happen? Malnutrition, lack of basic health care and lack of education work together to create a caste system in which the lowest caste can be easily oppre ed. Civil unrest makes any rational business per­son loathe co invest in a country where their employees might be hurt or killed and where the return on inve t­ment may be negligible due co bribery, corruption and thievery. Low interest loans, aid and ocher government support are, I suspect, skimmed off che top by Haitian political operative and ta.ken for personal enrichment.

o what do we do if we care?Ir will rake people who are willing ro risk their souls

- and physical safety and health - to help put bandaids on the very real wounds suffered by children who a.rebeing victimized by corruption and greed.

oul to soul though, we give everything we have to give: money, thought, prayer , rime.

It was an honor co work with a team co provide health care for children. le is not enough, and it i all that I have co give. •

The Reverend Deacon Ann Rumage Fritsclmer '77, ACFRE is a fimdraising consultant in westem North Carolina.

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Sarah Trapido '08 and David DiGiammarino '06 spent their summers promoting fuel efficiency -Trapido logged 13,000 road miles ouring the country in a vegetable-oil

fueled school bus, and DiGiammarino upported the trip in Boston.

Both are involved with a project called Road to Detroit, which i supported by Energy Action, a cudenr-run ener­

gy i ue coalition.Trapido, a ophomore from ew York iry, and her

ix bus maces topped in communities around the coun­try co calk co local citizen about fuel efficiency and co collect ignacur for a "Clean ar Pledge." The pledge asks people for a commitment to buy union-made American car that gee at lease 40 miles to the gallon and meet California' higher emi ion candard in order to reduce global warming. o far, nearly l l,000 people have igned the pledge.

"We came together from around the country because we are concerned with the way our economy and environment arc going," said T rapido, one of the project organizer .

Ar CC, Trapido i involved in Left, roup Arr Arcack, rudents Again r Violence ro the Environment ( AVE) and the Renewable Energy lub.

The bu copped in ew York iry, Bu ere, Mone., Washington, D. ., Madison, Wi c., Knoxville, Tenn. and Portland, Ore., and many other location .

The pledg were delivered to the E of Ford, eneral Motor and hrysler in Detroit in mid-August.

Di iammarino, a enior from Lexington, Mass., said he joined the project becau e he' committed co moving the world beyond oil, and wanted to spend the ummer dedicating him elf to making change. In Boston, he planned the convergence in Detroit and developed an upcoming Energy Action campaign called the ampus

limace hallenge which calls upon college campuses nationwide to reduce their global warming pollution. He al o pent rwo horr stints with the bus, at che beginning and the middle of the trip.

Ar , Di iammarino, a government major, i involved in the Holleran enter' Program in

ommuniry Action, 20 lmprov omedy roup and i an Admi ion fellow.

Biodi d, which the road crew stored in gallon contain­ers on top of the painted MC bus, is used without mak­ing modifications to the diesel engine of the bus. Throughout the trip group member contacted local restau­rants to obtain waste vegetable oil from cooking, which i heated until ic becomes thin enough to be used as fuel. •

Energy Action funded the trip through grants and sponsors. For more information on the Road to Detroit project, go to www.roadtodetroit.org. To learn more about Energy Actions future campaigns, visit www.energyaction.net.

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by Rebecca Larson '99

countrie who are often unwilling to have even the mo t fundamental, human contact with each other. American friend and colleague wondered why I wasn't afraid to vi it Iran, having already formed their opinion of the country without hav­ing been there. Their fears were ba ed largely on mi perception - promot­ed in the media and by the U .. gov­ernment - that Iran i a dangerou place co vi it and a terrori t rate.

In the brief time I pent haring tories and experience with the

lranian people, 1 found a ountry at odd with these negative perception . I traveled to Iran to lead an exchange of American higher education offi-

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. · ··-· ·Venturing into Iran:

·,: . beyond the

ial - a project of earch for ommon round, an international

non-governmental conflict re olution organization. The Iranian I poke with made a pointed di tinction between government and people, both within their own ociety and between that of the U .. government and the American people. I found the same to be true of the

· -: .. - warning

iemamese during my participation in onnecticut allege' 1999 Vietnam cudy Away Teach Away program. Thi mindset of the Viemame e and the Iranian , which allow for an openne to look beyond hi tory and politics and ee ochers as fellow global citizen , pro­vid an opportunity to bridge the

"What do Americans think of us?" Thi i the one que tion I was asked repeatedly during my vi it to Iran last year, often followed by, "Would you please go back to the United cares and explain that the Iranian people are not terrori t ?"

There i a gap between the American people' knowl­edge of lran and the Iranian people' knowledge of America. Thi gap exists on multiple level ocially and poliri ally, and ir i demon traced by leader in both

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gap through hared dialogue. In the ca e of Iran, people-co­

people contacts and a haring of world view could inform American and ea e their fear about Iran and provide a means for Iranians to hare who they are with American . Thi

ts no mall ta k for those few American and Iranian organization and individual working to engage both ides. However, with an absence of diplomatic relation

between che U .. and Iran, and opporcunitie for American to visit and experience Iranian culture being limited, even the malle t cep i ignificant. As we aw with the U .. and the oviet Union during the old War, contact between citizen can have a profound effect on dome tic opinion and government policie .

evercheless, whatever the intencion of the American and Iranian people co engage in culrural exchange there rill exists the political reality of the U .. -Iran relation­

ship. In 1998, Iranian President Mohammad Kharami called for a Dialogue Among Civilization - encourag­ing the exchange of professor , scholars, artists journal-i c , and tourists. even years lacer, opportunities for Americans and Iranian to visit one another freely are rill limited on both ides, and dialogue at the policical level is almost entirely ab enc.

This environment has created a dangerous di cord between policy and practice - particularly by U .. officials coward [ran. An intelligent, culcurally sensitive, and effective foreign policy coward another country can only be made by individuals with in-depth knowledge and understanding of char country and it people, their Y tern of livelihood, history and language. As a result,

the importance of any exchange between che U .. and Iran to help inform a rational foreign policy cannot be undere cimaced.

During my travel in Iran [ aw many young people like me - living their daily lives, spending rime with theirfriends and families, working co make a difference in theircouncry and pur uing a higher education. And yes, there ianolher ide co Iran char I cLldn'c see - inside the pri oncells of decained students and intellecrual , newspapersclosed down and citizen prore ring on the streets againstthe government. Bue whar T did experience was an Iranianh . a1· . 0 pit, try like none ocher. People were willing and eagert? drop whatever they were doing to cake me hopping orighc ceing, to cook me traditional Iranian food, and to

talk with me over tea, bowls of fruit and pasuies.

LARSON, AT LEFT,(IN NAVY

COAT) WITH HER IRANIAN

GUIDE AT THE TOMB OF THE

POET SA'ADI IN SHIRAZ.

I was in a taxi with a young Iranian woman who had kindly offered co cake off work and help me navigate the local bazaar. We pa ed a building painted white with an American Aag - the red stripes tipped with buJlers pointing vertically co che ground - char read "Down with the U .. A.' Doe it make you upset?" she asked tentatively. " o," I an wered chinking how interesting chi moment was - an Iranian and an American woman sharing experience , talking about our future , enjoying each ocher's company, and maybe even becom­ing friends - and then eeing chis reminder char we are indeed officially "enemies." I did not interpret her he i­rance as an apology for the mural and its message, bur rather a resigned acceptance of che political relation hip. Ir reinforced for me the complexity of the sicuacion between the two countries - with each o tied up in politics and rheroric, unwilling to move or make con­cession . However, by imply getting co know each other that afternoon, he and I were willingly defying rhe officially hostile relation hip defined for us by our politician and murals. •

A note ftom the web site of the U. . Department of State as of eptember 2005: "The Deparmzent of tate continues to wam U. . citizens to carefit!fy consider the risks of travel to Iran. Due to ongoing tensions, particular!J along the border with Iraq, U. . citizens may be at risk of harassment or kid­napping . . . . The U. . government does not currentry have diplomatic or consular relations with the lsl.amic Republic of Iran and therefore cannot provide protection or routine con­std.llr services to American citizens in Iran. "

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by Daryl Hawk '79

In search of Shangri-La Last November, inspired by both James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon and Peter Mathiessen's The Snow Leopard, I traveled to Bhutan, a Buddhist kingdom hidden high in the Himalayas. Everything that I had read indicated that I was heading ro a beautiful tranquil paradise where time still stand still - a world in which powerful nature and piriruality

rule upreme. The idea of the existence of' hangri-la' is intrigu­

ing co the we tern world because many of us, whether we admit it or not, sometime question the validity of our fast-paced, technological world and wonder whether or not it really leads to true happiness and contentment. We are fascinated with the idea char there are still places on earth chat omehow seem ro have escaped change.

I dreamed about going co Bhutan for seven years. After eeing a presentation at the Explorer lub in ew York City, I knew char chi was a country that represent­ed all the thing I longed ro experience and explore. Luck was on my ide when a represencative from the Explorer lub cold a Bhutanese rour and trek operator about my television show, the "Unconventional Traveler." We quickly formed a barter arrangement. I agreed co film and photograph the day-ro-day life of Bhutan and create a 60- minute documencary to air on both American and Bhutanese television. My work would al o appear in numerous national magazines and evencually lead to a book project. In exchange, my spon-or provided me with a guide and driver who would lead

me acros chis breathtaking country. I was as free as the wind and was given extraordinary

access to secret festivals, ancient religious ceremonies, the King's birthday celebration, an interview with the Prime Minister and rarely seen landscapes and monasteries.

My adventure tarred out as a que t ro traver e the country from the remote Ha Valley on the western border with Tibet co the Trum ing-la Pass at J 4,000 feet on the official border in the east. However, I quickly realized that the important goal wasn't ju t getting from one desrina­cion to anod1er. It was the enJightening journey itself,

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with the many valuable lessons I learned along the way, that counted the mo c.

The world-renowned Explorers Club be rowed the honor of carrying the Explorers Club Flag with me on mis expedition. The award must be voced and approved on by the Flag ommittee and the Board of Director . A Aag expedition mu t further the cause of exploration and field science. ince 1918 the Aag has been carried on hundreds of expeditions - co both poles, co the highest peaks of the greatest mountain ranges, to the depths of the ocean and even into outer pace.

One of the thing that I love rhe most about being a documencary photographer is that the camera force you ro look at life up dose. With a constant mile on my face and my ever-present camera around my neck, I was able co meet the friendly Bhutanese people and experience their Buddhist culture. They all became a part of my rory and documentary, and their images will live on for

future generation . I feel my camera captured the spirituality of the

country, and I don't feel conflicted about my role when photographing ecret religious rices because I approach it with sensitivity. My tyle is co be as unobtrusive as po ible while allowing all of my senses co go into over­drive. The constant vi ual stimulation I experience from dawn to dusk leads to the decisive moments I capture on film - images that come from both my vision and my heart.•

Daryl Hawk 79 is a member of the Explorers Club, a feLLow of the Royal Geographical Society, and host and prodiicer of the cablevision television show "The Unconventional Traveler. "For more information view his web site at www.hawkphotography. net

TWO YOUNG BOYS AT TRONGSA

DZONG IN CENTRAL BHUTAN. "THE

CHILDREN OF BHUTAN WERE THE

HAPPIEST I HAVE EVER SEEN ANY­

WHERE IN THE WORLD," SAYS HAWK.

TRAVELING,

TEACHING AND

STORYTELLING

Some thoughts on research

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Ve beeo' pmf, or here ar che ollege for almo r cwo decades now. Thar mean I've been around long enough co meer up with a fair number of ex- cudenr , catch up wich their new and see how rheir live have been unfolding. Ju r in the past few weeks, I've mec up wirh rwo rudenr . ne, who' now doing a Ph.D. ac the University of London, i ju r about co er off do hi di ercarion re earch in India, actually in che race of Rajaschan, where I've done mo r of my re earch. Thar warm my heart. I've aJ o run inro a rudenr and her mother, who cold me char caking one of my ourse in pired her daughter ro join rhe Peace orp . he erved rhree year in Kazakh ran and i now on her way co Egypt, Kenya and Uganda.

l was cold rhe family has "blamed" me for all of chi , bur I cook olace in che mile characcompanied the news.

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All of u profes or here ac the ollege have such corie rories of rudenc reporcing their rories and giving u ome en e chac che rories we have cold chem have had ome kind of

impact. True, our job has ics fru cracion and drawbacks, buc ic i a wonderful one: Ic assures us all a life through which many cori Aow. Academia is in many way like the Kachasaricsagara,

che cean of cream , a collection of ancienc Indian srories chac erves as che cencral mecaphor foe. alman Rushdie' wonderful

novel, Haroun and the en of tories. There are o many corie here among u . All one has co do i

glance ac che Web pages of faculry co ee how their srorie Aow ouc of che ollege during breaks and cream throughout the world as chey vencure forth - whether ro conference or resear h ices - and as they recurn home co hare new epi odes with one another and cudenc . Add co these cories the scori of new and returning cudencs eager ro cell their rorie while learning new cories, and one ees how, as in Ru hdie' novel, myriad cream or currencs converge, admix and mak new co­ries, o chac che o ean i concinually renewed and refr hed by che mulciple voice .

Today I'd like ro calk ju c a little a bic abouc my own experi­ence as a re earch-sroryceller who cravel for macerial. Bue, firsc, I'd like ro cake on whac I think i a mi perception abouc us aca­demics. Often, J hear people - noc academi buc, rypically, friend , neighbor , omecime even scudenc - bemoaning che loc of profe or , who have co do research co keep their ceaching job . ne hears how we have ro do research o as co publi h and noc peri h, char is co ay, fail co gee cenure. There is of cour e, an elemenc of truth in chi : !e's hard co imagine chac a profe or could earn cenure these day wichouc publi hing ome research. Bue the notion chac r earch i a kind of condary thing we do, omething we have co do co keep our jobs, scrikes me as being as

erroneou as ic is perva ive. There' another trouble ome aspecc of che presumption chac

research i imply che key to cenure. ince I've had cenure, whi h has been a while now, I've heard (and J know many cenured colleagues have heard) how greac ic mu c be ro have ummer off. When 1 hear comment like chi I'm alway taken

aback. For me, and I know for o many of my colleagues, re earch i the icing on che cake - ic' whac one gees co do once one cakes up di ercacion r earch wich hopes of one day geccing ro be a profe or, o one can continue ro research che subjects chac one loves besc and then cell people abouc chem.

Doing research allow a religious studies profes or, for exam­ple, to travel to fascinating places and ask no ey, per onal ques­tion chat people will actually answer becau e I'm an academic. They know chat I wane to know whac they know and co gain from their experience. In doing ethnographic work, 1 pur ue knowledge and hope ro gain ome wi dom. To be able ro do chi i a greac privilege and an enormou respon ibiliry. It's che re ponsibiliry of any coryceller, who muse omehow expr ome vi ion of truth and some conviction of auchenciciry as he

or he repre encs through word che per peccives and incerescs of other . Thi i crue whether tho e per pectives and inceresc

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belong to field informant or to academic colleagues. Being a profes or who eeks out scories and cell srories

allow me co be a perpetual cudenc. le allow me co learn from people as I gather their scories and ro incerprec people's cori according ro che multiple and shifting frames afforded by my pasc experience and che matrix of idea in my mind. Moreover, being a profes or po icion me co cell che rory of the corie I've learned, co rudencs, whether chey are che undergraduace, grad­uace or poscgraduace cudencs of religion who read my books or Ii cen ro me pontificate ac profes ional meetings, or cudenc 111 my clas e here at the ollege.

And chi leads ro my nexc poinc: Though che ollege awards che King and Rash prizes, one for ceaching and che ocher for re earch, I chink chat both awards are award for sro­rycelling. I chink of Marc Zimmer, who has won che King Award - and ju c coday received che Rash award - holding up a pair of day-glo mice on che cover of che mosc recenc CC:

Magazine and I chink co my elf, now chere's a srory! And I think ofTri tan Borer, who won che King award lase year and who has worked in ouch Africa. I have heard from studenc chac he's a cerrific coryceller.

From my own experience as a profe or, l know whac I ceach i heavily inspired, framed and informed by the rories I have learned or compo ed by doing research in che library and online buc also and, mo c imporcandy, in che field - whether in Trinidad, che Uniced cares or India.

And so, my poinc here i chac research by profes or is noc jusc a requirement wich which we are burdened. le is precious elemenc in our own creams of rories or unwrircen biographi o much o chac often we find ourselves unable co scop talking

about our research experience and celling our research roriesonce we begin - chat i to ay, once we have an audience.

J have an audience here in chi hall and so, for che remaining few minutes, J'd like to mencion, if not cell you, a few of my tori , ro illuscrate how intimate re earch has been for me and

how very much ic has haped me as an academic coryceller. They're rories about i olaced momencs from my academic life,

rories chat incimace, I chink, the pleasure I have felc as a learner who is a ceacher. I've rold all of chem co rudencs ac rimes when I choughc they might be in cruccive.

I'm cempced co begin with che rory of how I fir c di covered che excicemenc of the life of the mind and che joy of learning and celling rories while I was in high chool, buc thac would require celling you about che world' cariesc hisrory ceacher and my high chool guidance coun elor, who said ro me and my parenc one faceful day junior year: "Lee' face ic: Lindsey i noc college macerial." Bue chac would be embarrassing, o in cead, I'll cell the rory abouc che day a monkey role my underwear.

le' che rory of my fir c day ever in India, where I have now spenc about three year of my life. And ir' a rory I omecimes cell cudenc if chey are having trouble gercing carced on a re earch project. Jc' a basic "when you're down, there' no place ro go buc up" ore of rory.

In June of I 979, I craveled from Bo con ro Frank.fun ro

Delhi ro beautiful Bangalore, which then howed no hinc of theco mopoliran technology hub ic has become. Exhausted fromrhe journey and sweaty from che ummer hear, I checked inroche girl's dormirory of the Uni red Theological eminary, whichwas ro be my home ba e as 1 visited outh Indian pilgrimageplaces over the course of che next few months. Wanting ro washup, I opened my suitcase on the cot in my tiny, cinderblockroom, grabbed a facecloth and toochbru h and headed down thehall to the communal bathroom.

When I returned co my room, I found an enormou monkeyirring on my bed and rifling through my belonging . Half hid­

ing behind the door, I cried to shoo ir away. Tc looked me in theeye for a moment, chen selected a pair of little flowered under­wear to cake as a ouvenir before mo eying our the window andonto the branch of an adjacent cree.

Mortified 1 flew down the dorm srairca e and gave cl1a e cothe simian now scampering off through che school's cenrralcourtyard, where ic di played co pas ing eminarians my w1men­tionable , clearly identifiable as mine even ifl had nor been giv­ing chase, becau e the Bangalore marker ac char rime sold onlywhite ready-made underwear. Eventually, the monkey rossed myundies into a flowerbed.

By supperrime, and my fir c meal with rudencs, I was alreadywell-known as the monkey-chasing foreigner with floweredpanties. Entering the djning room, I was greeted with gaiety andinformed char new students had co stand on a chair and sing.The rudenrs a sured me it was completely customary. I said charI wasn't a srudenc buc rather, merely a visitor, which was true.And I pleaded shyness and then tone-deafness, both al o rrue.Bur che scudenrs would not be di uaded. And o I ended upsinging, in a fashion, Mary Had a Little Lamb and as 1 rud o, Iinadverrencly brushed a few stray hairs from my face with myhand, which was covered with spicy sambar sauce. A fewmoments lacer my right eye began to tear, then swell. Within ahon rime I looked like the victim of a horrible beating. Thechool nur e was sent for, and I was sent back ro my room with

an ice pack bur nor before receiving a colding. Silly person,what was I rhinkjng? I don't remember what I was thinkjng, burI'm gues ing it was omeming about wanting co go home.

The next day I saw Bangalore and fell in love with India.nd what a funny thing memory i . Over the years the events

of char fir c day have made that day one reason char I fell in lovewith India.

I wish I had rime ro cell you many stories from my variousre earch seines in Rajasthan, where I worked in Udaipur, the lit­tle town in India well-known for its beauty and hi tory, bur also�or being the ecring for the horrendously Oriencalisr Bond film,"O ropussy." How I'd love ro cell you abouc the hi hmahal,hall of mirror " in a Rajasthani palace I visited fleetingly. As I

made my way from my car co the palace, village children as uredm� that if you look ac yourself just the righc way in the palace�•rror you n ee yourself naked. I aid I'd keep thi in mind,t 1 �an tell you char I hope everyone with me when I vi iredc e htshmahal saw what I saw in rho e mirrors. And then how

I'd love co tell you more scories abouc India: abour people, e pe­cially dear friend , who cold me their scories inclurung storiesabout god , about saints, about heroes, about each other, andultimately about myself . ...

And I wish I could tell you aboucTrinidad, where I have beenworkjng for the pa c few years. I'd love to cell you about the lookon Gene allagher's face when we were erved at a shrine onemorning not wine, but Chivas Regal. And I'd like co cell youabouc the amazing conversations Gene and I had with our friendBaba am, who as a cl1ild hopped a boat co Manharran, got a jobplaying the drums in the Broadway musical " howboac" andhung for many years with Lena Horne and Malcolm X inHarlem. Bur I don'c have rime for rho e scories either.

RETURNED TO MY

ROOM, I FOUND AN

ENORMOUS

MONKEY SITTING

ON MY BED AND

RIFLING THROUGH

MY BELONGINGS.

o, d1ere's no time now, but very oon I'll get ro cell the ecorie co my students. And as I assign my rudenc research proj­

ect and truggle co get chem co formulate proposal , develophypothe e and organize their arguments, I hope that they willsoon have some good scorie co cell me. 1 hope that for them, asfor us faculty, research will eem nor omeching they have ro dobur omeching d1ey get co do. I hope that for chem research willbe, as it is for me, d1e icing on the cake. •

Professor Harlan presented these remarks in Palmer Auditorium at Convocation, eptember 1.

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IMPRESSIONS OF BERLIN: Memor

Last spring, Matt Magida '07 wrote a paper titled "Memory and the Holocaust"for his class History 272 "Berlin. "Focusing on the city where his great­grandfather had been imprisoned and from which his family had later fled, Magida interspersed his own experience with historical perspectives on the Holocaust and its survivors. The following excerpts from that paper describe his return to his ancestors' homeland

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I remember rhe fir c time I eriou ly dreamed of vi icing Berlin, even wor e,

ermany. "Why would you wane co go?" My mother would nap with anger, as my grandfather at in che kitchen with hi back co rhe eorge Wa hingcon Bridge, di craughc at u h a comment. I cannot recall my exact age, but my family' unwillingne s co permit my de ir co eek out chi "home" prom peed year of generational ten ion between child, parent and grandfather. My mom never ought co uncover her

erman qu cion a che daughter of an exiled Berliner. ide from her father' inability co come co grip with the pa c, during her you ch cw York was the city. Berlin copped at my great-grandmoth­er' 166th erect apartment. For my generation, ic wa a hidden as che cuff­ing in rhe goo e-down comforter my brother and I lepc on as hildren at my grandparent ' Fore Lee, .J. apart­ment. le never aw che light of day, be au e ic was hidden in a do er ex epc when my family would vi ic overnight.

of my ched­uled departure co Berlin, che goo e com­forter i now faded from IO year of warm un penetrating ir red cover print; ic graces my bed ac home. I'm off for a quick vi ic co my grandfather ac hi apartment before meecing up with my profes or and I 7 classmace at ewark Liberty Airp re. randpa ha returned from the ho pical and i recovering from a kin infe cion, cellulici . Hi face i swollen and red, but he i due co make a full recovery with ancibiori . After lunch, my brother run off co che celevi-ion, and my grandfather rak out omeching neither my mother nor I have

ever seen before - photograph of Berlin and hi family. Face-co-face with

my grandfather as a child, I am captivat­ed by che beauty of che black-and- white imag . arrating the cory of the Baumblatc dyn cy, my grandfather low­ly add a dimen ion of depth co my

erman question; I begin co orrelace past life cyle co pre enc manneri m . horcly b fore I race out che door co the

airport, hi face lights up with new chat I will be attending a Hertha o cer game. Finally, a ign of joy from rhe city he never mennon .

wich my America ac my back, we cou h down at Tegel Airport. Fir t by bu chen by U-Bahn; 20 cir d

merican make ic co Kruezburg. Proce sing my past, 20 minute wrapped around 66 year of ilence i overwhelming. The ho eel i ju c beyond the Jewi h Mu cum. Maybe my pa c will be found cl1ere coo, not ju c at number 12 Horten ien craBe.

The legacy of an exiled erman, I have returned co cl1e homeland. Yee I know o little of ic hi cory except from a biased high chool textbook, abridged rorie cold by Mary Fulbrook and Brian

Ladd and the notorious "Hider hannel." We are at the "Topography of

Terror," a ore pie in the erman com­ach, urrounded by wall of tyranny. Ladd doe not do it justice, nor does the Hi tory hannel. Looks on rman choolchildren eem like rotten milk to

the comach. plash, th re goe the milk, rolling down a girl' ageles white porce­lain face. In read of wiping rear away, the girl rub chem inco their kin, ab orbing them as memorie . The cold air blow again r my now aged and pale dry kin. " inereen year old," remind­ing my elf of my age as I walk, looking ac a reAeccion of resi can e fighter . Twency­year-old univer icy ruden , united under the umbrella r i cance movement known a the White Ro e, cheir face were ealed on chi very ground along with chou and of war criminal . Their

nd theHolocaust

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could my great-grandfather ive Sachsenhau en for six vveeks,

ti I couldn't handle n1y emotions n1ore than six minutes?

legacy remain , permanently etched bocl1 along and under a land mass ironically parallel to clie Berlin Wall. Why are cl1e names of re i ranee fighters recorded in scone, bur Jewish vic­tim of che similar face noc? Did chese re isrance fighter , many about my age, die so iliac I could reAecc and never forget my

family' cory? The empty -Bahn bring a group of American and erman youth co what appears co be the edge of rime and

space, Lichrerfelde. From an archiceccural candpoinc, ir looks as though rime ha rood till since 1939. As a group we di -embark ac Botani cher Garten. Ir is perfection personified. Everything seems in order. Cobblescones line che streets and hop urround che town quare. Immediately, J feel at home. I open che worn-out envelope chat contains photographs of the building l am searching for. We make our way inco clie cown square and find Horcen iensmille.

13 ... 12A ... 12, " top!" I scare at che trucrure, eyes like saucers and mouth

agape. The wooden fence is no longer standing; a modern metal one has taken ic place, amid great controversy my cou in and I would lacer find ouc. [ nervously ring me bell and che door clicks open. My grandfather' voice echoes tn my head, 'Third Aoor on me right." Wooden scair creek as I contin­ue up the second Aoor. A confu ed woman wich an infant in her arms greers u . My cousin cran laces our tory, the woman smiles wicl1 joy. I

explore the apartment, not convinced uncil we walk out on the balcony and look our on che street below me. [r i true; I am finally home!

have been painful Leaving che group early fromachsenhausen, I walk the creec of

Berlin alone on an empty unday after-

noon. How could my great-grandfather survive achsenhausen for ix weeks, while I couldn't handle my emotions for more man six minure ? On me trolley car to hi grave, I fina!Jy begin co understand my grandfamer. Plot number 99926; first deach by azi and econd deacli by ivy's trangulacion. Thi i my Topography ofTerror, the Jewi h emecery. My great-grandfa­ther's name, (along wich mou and of omer men and women who mec similar faces), was carved in ics own headstone. The ight of me covered grave is overwhelming as l fall co clie

ground in tears while moving dire and clearing ivy. Understanding his trauma firsthand by traveling back to Berlin, the puzzle co my German pasc is fina!Jy solved as I look face-to-face with the man who died for my freedom.

My journey to Berlin has been monumental because ic was the first cime I ever felc home in a place outside che bubbles of uburban Philadelphia and onneccicur ollege. I am looking

forward to my return co Berlin, my family's city. Berlin i the city where I not only redi covered who Twas, buc also uncov­ered my grandfather's dream co go back one lase time. I hope he comes wim me.•

LEFT: MAGIOA'S GRANDFATHER, GUNTHER BAUMBLATT P'76, ANO HIS GREAT­

AUNT, ALICE BO DAN SKY, CIRCA 1937.

RIGHT: MAGIOA ANO HIS COUSIN, JENNIFER BOOANSKY, ALICE BOOANSKY'S

GRANDDAUGHTER, ON THE SAME BALCONY 60 YEARS LATER.

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''Admit it: As great as men are, we can also be pretty damn fru crating at time - and nearly impossible to decode," write Jonathan mall '89, in his ''Ask Him Anything" advice column in Cosmopolitan magazine. Each month, mall, a Los Angeles-based freelance writer answers ques­

rion from Cosmo's readers, giving his "guy perspective" on ch.eir daring dilemmas. Small has heard everything, from che woman whose man drops hi trousers in public after a few cocktail co che more typical complaint from women with commitment-phobic boyfriends.

While mo r of the questions and answer are humor­ous, mall rakes his job eriously. "I have a re ponsibility to chese women, ome of whom don't gee advice from any­one el e - which kind of ca.res me " he says. If question deal with serious matters - (jke alcohol, drug or physical

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abu e - mall will call a licensed therapist or M.D. co gee a profe sional opinion.

How did chis 38-year-old (who is happily married with a new baby) become Cosmo's guy guru? "] seem to have a knack for giving good advice - but following my own advice? oc o much," he says.

A history and theater major at CC, mall began to consider a career in writing after taking a fiction-writing class with Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English Blanche Boyd. " he was an inspiration. Her creative journalism class changed my life."

After graduation, mall moved back to his native New York City and cook a job as an editorial assistant at Child magazine. A tint as senior editor of Fitness magazine fol­lowed, and, as the only man in che office, mall edited a column on sex and relationship .

When mall was asked to pen a freelance story, 'The XOXO Files," for YM magazine, "All hell broke loo e," he ays. oon offer began to pour in from ocher women's

magazines. "l found a bizarre niche writing about relation-hip from a guy' perspective," he says. mall, who says he

adores women, went on to become senior features editor at Glamour, where he erved as che magazine's "Jake,' writing "che holy grail of advice columns." He lacer jumped to che ocher side of the aisle as executive editor of men' magazine Stuff, where, among ocher ducie , he doled out dating advice for men.

For che pa t five year , ma.LI has been che anonymous ( hhh! don't cell anyone) author of Redbook's "Diary of He," a fictional column about Zach, a ingle magazine editor, who lives in ew York City. "Zach is a dog. The

LEFT: JONATHAN SMALL, COSMO'S "GUY GURU" TAKES NOTES

AT AN L.A. POOL PARTY.

OPPOSITE PAGE: RAPPER SNOOP DOGG WITH SMALL AND DON

"MAGIC" JUAN. Y ES, THOSE ARE REAL DIAMONDS ON THE CUPS!

column i ore of a ' ex in rhe icy' from a male poinc of view," says mall. He admics co enjoying caking on che voices of Jake, Zach and Cosmo's

guy guru. 'These guys are never me, but more of an

amalgam of ingle men I know," he says. "le makes people laugh when rhey meet me. I really am en icive ro a fault - I swear! I cried during 'March of the Penguins."'

This i not che fir c time mall has had an alter ego. Alums from che mid- co lace-1980s may remember him as "Kid Finesse," deejay of rhe popular hip-hop show, Finesse Radio, on WC I. Ac che rime, rhere was no orher cacion playing urban music in the area, and mall had a large following among che young people in New London. ''They would stop by rhe station ro meet me, and they were always shocked co find out chat 'Kid Finesse' was really a skinny, white, Jewish guy from Wescchescer," he says.

A residenc of Lo Angeles for rhe past three year , mall, who scill con ider himself a ew Yorker, has created "quite a nice life" for himself He has co-written a book The Best Places to Kiss in owhern California, and has anorher book deal in the works rhac is based on hi columns. And, in addition co gigs wirh Cosmo, Redbook, Marie Claire, Maxim, Blender, Teen People and Stuff, he do a fair amount of celebrity profiles, including cories on California governor Arnold chwarzenegger, Pamela Anderson and Jennifer

Lopez (who kept mall waicing in Miami for four days before rhe interview). One of his favorite celebrity interview was wirh rapper noop Dogg. "The guy ju c oozes coolness from every pore of his being. I got a contact high being around him."

Bue profiles on average folks in unusual cir­cumstances are what really interest mall, like the cory he wrote on a We t Palm Beach man who became a woman rhen became a man

again, or rhe entrepreneur in orchern alifornia, who started a crime-scene deaning

busines . "He gave me rip on how to get chose pesky blood cains off rhe carpet," mall ays. "I really appreciate good advice." •

we could "ask him anything," Staffers from the

Office of College Relations sent their questions to Jonathan Small,

Cosmopolitan magazine's "guy guru." His answers, below, show why his

advice column is one of Cosmo's most popular sections.

Is it true that no man in all of modern history has ever changed an

empty roll of toilet paper and installed a new one? Is it possible this has hap­

pened in other countries but the man has never been observed in the act?

I was intrigued by your question, as I can't recall ever changing a roll

of toilet paper myself - or even seeing my guy friends do it. An extensive

Google search revealed that in 1982 a gentleman named Zippy Griswold of

Bangor, Maine, was spotted opening up a six-pack bag of Cottonelle, but

there was no evidence that he actually secured the roll into its dispenser.

As for the existence of male TPRs (toilet paper replacers) in other coun­

tries? Beats me. I did ride with a French guy on a crowded train once, and

my hunch was that his toilet paper supply was fini. Throughout history,

there have been tales of magical men from the fairy world who replace

sanitary tissue for their forlorn wives, but these are merely myths, legends,

propaganda used by patriarchal societies to sedate the masses. You may

ask why it is that men are perfectly content ignoring the pathetic brown

tube that sits by your toilet? To you I simply say this: Same reason women

never change the ink toner in the printer.

My husband has a comb-over that he is proud of because it hides his

bald spot. How can I tell him kindly (of course!) that he looks terrible?

When will men ever learn? No one has ever fooled anyone with a

comb over - and yet, as I write this, some poor fellow is looking at himself

in the mirror fiddling with whatever vestiges of the hair he has left on his

head thinking, Damn, this looks good. It's a tough situation you've found

yourself in, and my heart really goes out to you. Hair loss is to men what

weight gain is to women: a topic you discuss at your own peril. There is no

kind way to point out that his comb-over is abominable (no matter how you

put it he'll only feel crummy and paranoid, and he'll probably compensate by

getting more comb-overy). My advice is to be less direct - subtly point out

guys on the street, in restaurants, in the movies who have a similar hair situ­

ation, but better solutions. Say something off-handed such as, "I like that

guy's look - you would look so cute with your hair like that." If he changes

his hairstyle one night, reward this behavior by telling him how much you

love it and jumping his bones. He'll eventually get the message. If he does­

n't? Pay his barber large sums of money to "accidentally" shave it all off.

Why do men refuse to ask for directions when they get lost?

Lost? We never get lost. It's just that sometimes the place we're going

isn't where Mapquest or all the stupid local road signs say it is. And maybe

if you weren't pestering us so much about asking for directions we could fig­

ure it out on our own. Seriously, men do many things well - but admitting

failure is not one of them. We'd rather drive in circles than pull the car into

a gas station and admit to some stranger that we have no idea where we

are. That would be revealing weakness - and guys don't do weakness.

From a young age, we're taught to be strong and tough it out. We're encour­

aged to figure stuff out on our own. Then we grow up and get lambasted for

it. Keep this in mind next time your man refuses to ask for directions, then

tell him to get over it and stop the car.

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MISTAKEN LOVE

We once loved each ocher and loved o deep

Thar we opened our arms and embraced rogecher the planer that eparared u

We once believed in lie and believed so deep

Thar we mi rook mud for gold

Bur 1 will conrinue loving so deep

Letting every nighr pres the planer downward with a squeaky sound

Until the groaning planer can'r bear the weighr and fall into your embrace

Bur I will conrinue loving in uch a rubborn fashion

Ju r like a burning flame in myth

Unril mud rruly is rempered inro gold

Los Angeles, eptember 11, 1998

From: tone Turtle: Poems 1987-2000, bilingual edition with translation by Mai Mang. odavaya, 2005

Yibing Huang (who i known by che pen name Mai Mang) was born in Changde, Hunan, hina in 1967. He grew up during the ultural Revolurion and its aftermath. From 1983 co 1993 he studied ar Beijing Univer iry, receiving hi B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. inChine e lirerarure. Duringthe same time he escablishedhim elf as a poer and wasclosely a ociared with anew generarion of youngpoets based in Beijing.

Huang moved co che Unired cares in 1993. Hs poetry has cominually appeared i11 literary periodi­cal and amhologies in

hina. He al o received another Ph.D. in compara­rive literature from the Univer iry of alifornia, Los Angele . At

nnecticut ollege he is an as i ranr professor of

hinese in the deparrment of East Asian Languages and ulrure.

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Coincidences Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas

Edward Burger '85 and Michael tarbird, 2005, W.W. Norton and Company, 276 pages, nonfiction

Math guru Edward Burger '85 and col­league Michael carbird, a profes or at the Univer icy ofTexas ac Au tin, have penned a text for "math-o-phil and math-o-phob ,

Coincidences,

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alike." Irreverent and fun, the book rakes a humorou look at complicated mathe­matical topics.

Burger and tarbird believe chat all people can enjoy and under-rand great mathe­

matical ideas without bru hing up on "gar­den variety chool math.'

A look at the reproductive habit of rab­bit lead to an introduction on Fibonacci number . In a chapter on probability, chey uggesc chat, given enough time (forever},

a roomful of monkey randomly peclcin letters on a keyboard will evencually type Hamlet in ics cncirery.

" hi book i Fibonacci' equence and ch olden Ratio through the looking glas with a dash of alvador Dall and David Letterman thrown in for good measure," ay the author .

Burger, profes or of mathemaci and deparcmenc chair at William ollege has received everal writing and teaching award from the Machemacical ociarion of America. A former rand-up comedian, he has appeared on B TV and arional Public Radio. He i al o the author of The Heart of Mathematics: An invitation to Effective Thinking {with carbird}, Exploring the Number Jungle: A journey

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into Diophantine Analysis and Making Transcendence Transparent: An lntuitve Approach to Transcendental Number Theory (with Robert Tubb ).

Personality and Psychotherapy: Treating the Whole Person

Professor of Psychology Jefferson Singer,

2005, Guilford Press, 274 pages, nonfiction

Jeffer on inger, profi or of psychology, has publi hed a new book chat is being hailed as an "elegantly written" incegration of per on-based psychology and enlight­ened clinical practice.

Personality and Psychotherapy provide a framework for using recent advances in per onaliry cience to inform and enrich p ychotherapy. inger how how p ychol­ogisc can as es ind1viduals on many lev­el , leading to creacmenc that con ider clienc multidimensional rather than as ymbols of ympcom or diagno e . Hi

book explain key concept and pr e­dures of per onaliry ass ment and how to use chat data co plan treatment.

"Thi landmark volume offer a new vi ion for 21 c-century psychology - a vi ion which, like che book ic elf, i rig­orou , empathic and deeply committed to exploring the my eerie of a per on' life," ay Dan McAdam , profes or of education and ocial policy at

orthwe tern Univer icy. mger I the author of two ocher

books, The Remembered elf Emotion and Memory in Personality {with Peter alovey} and Message in a Bottle: tories of Men and Addiction. He al o co-edited At Play in the Fields of Conscioumess: Essays in Honor of Jerome L. inger {with Peter alovey).

The author of more than 40 article , chapter , and book review in the field of per onaliry, autobiographical memory, and clinical p ychology, inger erv as an a ociace editor for Contemporary

Psychology and journal of Personality and i on the editorial board of the Review of General Psychology.

Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman

Professor of ociology Robert Gay, 2005, Temple University Press, 216 pages, nonfiction

Following two decade of re earch in lum neighborhood in RJo de Janeiro, Robert

ay profe or of ociology, has recently publi hed Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman.

The book cell the tory of one woman who was closely involved with drug gang life in RJo de Janeiro in the 1990 . Through a cries of conversation he had with hi ubject, ay d cribes condition of poverty, violence and inju rice and, in so doing, explrun why women like Lucia become involved with drug and gangs, and why the ituacion i unlikely to change.

ay' re earch and interview for thi book cook place in a RJo de Janeiro lum known as Jakeira between 1999 and 2002. There are nearly 600 uch lum -Jave/as - in RJo, and mo t of tl1em are controlled by well-organized and heavily armed drug gang .

ay, who e previou res arch focu ed on political movemencs among the poor and the rran icion to democracy, aid th book provid a unique in ider' knowl edge of drug gangs and che violence cha has plagued Rio.

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appear daily in the new paper." (Editor's note: An excerpt from the book was publi hed in the pring '04 edition of CC Connectiettt College Magazine.)

Greening Connecticut Cities and Towns: Managing Public Trees and Community Forests

e iud by Charles and arah P. Becker '27 D, ctor of the Connecticut College Ar ret1m1 Glenn Dreyer M '83 and Robert ·d. 2005, University of Co1111ecticut Press, 265 pat 'S, nonfiction

Publi..: me and community fore t pr -vidc I n air, purified water, in reased prop ft) value, thriving couri m, wildlife habmu .u d beauty. Bur, according to edi­tor I>reyu and Ricard, onnecricur' tree� ar thn:acened by di ease, in ect , imasive plants, poorly planned develop­ment, evere weather, neglect and indiffer­ence. The m·ironmental u cainability of the Connecucuc land cape i dependent on ch health of public ere and commu­nity forc\tS.

Crreni11g Connecticut Cities and Towns help r dcrs under rand specific aspect of community for cry - tree rrucrure and fun uon, for example - and giv compreh r 1v ideas for community for­� t progr.1m planning, development and •mpl m nution.

Dre er h� been exe ucive dire tor ofch II e' ,oodwin- iering enter for( ·01 rvatio11 R1 logy and nvironmentaltud . .ind al o . erves as an adjunct pro­

m the bOLany depanment. hair ofth ( onn ctiLllt Urban Forest ouncilaucl a member of the Connecricut Tree

Protection Examining Board, he i al o the author of Connecticut's Notable Trees.

Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change: How the Best Companies Ensure Meaningful Change and Sustainable Leadership

edited by Louis Carter '96 with David Ulrich and Marshall Goldsmith, 2005, Pfeiffer, 475 pages, nonfiction

After rudying more than 300 organiza­tion , HR and management "guru "Loui

arcer, David Ulrich and Mar hal oldsmich found there wa an over­

whelming need for leader hip develop­ment and organizational change in a time of market de line, ethi candals, war, cerrori m, low morale and increased tr in the workplace. The editor profile rhe cracegie and best practices of I 5 cop

organizations - including GE pical, Hewlett Packard, Lo kheed Marcin, Intel, MIT and Mocorola, that not only have urvived and thrived during a period of

market cri is, but offer a benchmark for how a company can reinvent and rebuild ic elf after year o decline.

arcer i the founder and presid nt of Be t Practice Board and Best Pra cice Publication and i a leading authority in the field of best practice and program de ign in organization and leader hip development. He has written or edited five books on thi ubject and i vice pre -ident of re earch for Linkage lnc., a glob­al organization development company that specializes in leader hip development.

Five in a Row

Jan Coffey (Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick

'77), 2004, MIRA, 395 pages.fiction.

Pool ide lase ummer, I read Five in a Rowby Jan offey. Gradually, I had a curious desir co fasten a eat belt.

Berween the lac c in fast car and the latest in computer hacking, it's a peedy read indeed. I was particularly caken by the main character, Emily Doyl , a mart,

omewhac woman who get hand ome guy without even trying.

We meet Emily chrough the eye of Lyden ray, a naky mi fie who devolves into a pathological maniac, turning a mou e into a lethal weapon. From hi leazy lair, he haunt

Emily, cau ing peccacular car crashe for anyone remotely connected co her. The meat of the book i a low bur sure recog­nition by Emily and other char che e "accident " are related and then a con­nection i made-co che wrong guy! Emily' knight in hining armor figure ching ouc, though, save che day and gee che girl. - ML

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MEN·S HOLLOW

Dead Men's Hollow

with Amy Rogers Naz,1rol' '90, "Fon-vcr True"

Led by duce-part female har­monics, including 1he voice of Amy Roger� Nazarov '90, \lVi1shingro11, DC area band Dead Men's Hollow draws musical inspiration from old-time, bluegrass, Southern gospel and countr}' blues. Their first CD, "roreverTrue," mixes sec­ular and sacred American tr.idirion­als with wiuy originals. For mor<: information 011 the group, nm \\WW.deadmenshollow.com.

WHEN TAMMIE CLAYTON '01

tarted working on her undergraduate degree at onne ticut liege as a 27-year­old, he was taking five classes a em ter, working 40 hour a week at the LEAP (Leader hip, Education and Athleti in Parmer hip) program and rving on the

ew London Board of Educarion. That kind of drive and dedication erve her well in her po ition as head of middle school at the Williams chool on campus.

pend a few minute in conver arion with layton and it i obviou that she care deeply about education and chil­dren. A elf-de igned major in educa­tion, human developmenr and ociolo­gy - her the i wa titled "Faith and Education: Vehicle for ocial hange"

layron feels chat the educational y rem doe an inadequate job of meet-

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ing the complex need of cudenr . "My bigge t hallenge i making ure

everyone' need are met," he ay . layron, who al o reach eventh grade

Engli h at William , i amazed by the privilege and respon ibilicy of working wirh children. "Whatever I ay, they take it as go pel. It i a huge re pon ibilicy I've been given."

Recendy, layton' fir t-grade teacher, wirh whom he had maintained a close relation hip, pas ed away. "Ir dawned on me that ome of my student will have the same kind of relation hip with me."

Becau e layron was di engaged from the learning process during high school in her native ew Jer ey, he want to help her rudenr become active learner . "Education i a proces chat i o individ­ual, and a rudent's u ce i dependent

on o many factor . I con tanrly a k my elf, 'What i best for chi rudent?''

"When I go home at night I a k my elf, 'Have I made a po icive impact on my stu­dent ?' If the an wer i 'ye ,' I know chat I am doing my job,'' he ay .

utside of William , layton has a wide variety of inter t . he ing - "I ee my voice as a gift, and I love to share it" -both locally and nationally, write mu i and enjoy creative writing. he hopes to publi h a horc tory in the near future.

Looking toward the fi.1cure, layron plan to continue a career in education. he ay working at William has un overed her

passion for educational leader hip, and he i moving toward a graduate degree.

'It is amazing how much my rud ms give to me. They reach me some valuable I ns," he ay . "I feel very ble ed." - MVH

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Karen Beber '88

Kiteboarder, business owner

WHILE RETURNING FROM WORK

one en:ning, narive Floridian Karen Beber '88 noticed a "cool looking pore" on che water. he topped her car and p ke with ome men on the beach, who

informed her char they were "kireboard­ing," a form of wakeboarding where the boarder i pulled by a kite in read of a boar. They mentioned char chey were opening a chool in three month time. 'Thev gave me cheir number," Beber recall , and "as oon as the third month rolled around, I alled."

After her fir r I on, Beber knew he had found a new pore. "I rill remember ch first rime I made ir up on the board and rode. le was pure exhilaration and enjoyment," she ay .

Beber went on co combine her love of kit boarding wich her bu in a umen ( he has worked in ales and mar­kenng) by e rabli hing zone Travel, a company char arrange kiteboarding tour around rhe , orld. "A few year ago, a friend and I were looking for a new kiceboarding de cinacion in the

aribbean. There wa nor one ource for information on riding,

rhe weather, kite pots and accom­modarion . I knew char chere was an opportunity."

Wich de rinarion from K nya and Greece co Brazil and Turkey,

zone 'I ravel draw clients from all over rhe world, and Beber i on­

rinuou ly adding new de cinacion . "( am che only U . . -ba ed compa­ny chat marker travel exclu ively co kiceboarder for kireboarding,' he ay • "I ab olucely love what I do.

To et chi bu ine grow and uc­c ed i really amazing," he ay .

Another sideline, Kite Fever lothing and Acee ori , wa born

during lase year' hurricane ea on.looking co avoid Hurricane Ivan,Beb r headed co che i land of

Hi paniola, Dominican Republic, wich her hildren and profe ional kiceboarder and friend Laurel Eastman. Unfortunately, Hurricane Jeanne quickly followed lvan, heading coward the i land. While the corm raged out ide, cman and Beber

were in pired. They began curring up old, "dead" kite co mak bag . Kire Fever now ell three different type of bag a well as clothing.

Beber pend most days on che warer, "when there i wind," and works at night. Her love of water port ha a long hi co­ry. Born in Miami, he wa an All­American wacer polo player in high chool and a competitive wimmer. he

al o enjoy water kiing ( lalom and bare­foot), scuba diving and urfing. n land, Seber holds a black belt in both Tae Kwon Do and karate.

Beber ay he enjoy che feeling of being completely exhau ced after a great workout and i driven co better her elf. "I have never, in the porr arena, been K with complacency. If I know I can do bet­ter I do bercer." Beber admits char it is fun co compete with other , bur he e her­elf as her bigge r compecicor.

A hi cory major ac , Seber call her alma macer "che mo c fabulou environ­ment I could have asked for!" he i grace­ful for che opportunirie che ollege afforded her co learn, explore, uavel and "figure our who l was and what inter ced me and how I would pur ue tho e inter­e t both within and ouc ide the bound of an academic environment." he Ii cs Profe or of Hi cory Bruce Kirmm e among her favorites.

Recently, Seber wa pon ored by

alifornia performan e clothing company, irl4 port, who e mi -ion i co in pire girl of all ag co

lead confident and active live . ay company pre ident Kim Ruby, "Karen nor only exemplifie our mi ion in a larger en e, he al o demon traces it for her chiJdren on a daily basi . "

Married and the mother of three, Seber often bring her children with her when he travel . Zander, 8, Elle, 7, and ik, 4, gee co experien e fir t-hand new ulrure and tradi­tion on kireboarding trip around che world. "I wane co be a great role m del and to how chem that it i po ible co live a good, hon c, healthy life," he ay . Seber looks forward co a rime when her children can join her in her favorite port. "Talk about aw ome family vaca­tion !" he say . - MVH

For more information on Beber's business ventures visit W\vw.ozone travel.com and WW\v,kitefever.com.

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New turf field dedicated

WITH PRIDE, A BIT OF HUMOR

and the help of the field hockey ream, onnecticut ollege dedicated a new

all-weather turf field aturday, eprember 24.

"Ir's firring that the field will erve ream . It i the concept of'ream' char has brought us to thi point," said Franci J.

hields, Katherine Wenk hri coffer '45 Director of Athletics, noting that the project pulled together people from many parts of the community and the liege.

As part of rhe ceremony, a dedication plaque and a framed tribute that will be di played in the foyer of Dayton Arena were unveiled by the rwo captain of the field hockey ream, Ashley Kener on '06 of Wenham, Mass., and aiclyn

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onnolly '06 of Manch rer Mas . Their team was the fir r ro play on the field after the dedication. The women trounced ,._,_,,'-'"'--' rival Bare , 6-1.

The new rurf in called at the Lyn and David ii fen Track and Field drain quickly, can be plowed, i more forgiv­ing when player fall, provide an even urface and allows for fa rer movement

of the ball. The new field will primarily be u ed

by the women' field hockey ream in the fall and men' and women' lacro e in the pring, bur it will al o provide addi­tional playing pace for the ollege' oc­cer ream , club port , intramural and recreational activities. Ir i estimated that 600 tudencs will u e the field annually.

Including onneccicuc ollege, nine of the 11 college in the ew England

mall ollege Athletic Conference have all-weather turf field . The field, an A­Turf symheric gras in called as part of a

I .4 million project, it on a 500,000-pound layer of rubb r and sand pellets.

Achleri , fim s and welln are an important part of a holi tic liberal arcs education, aid Carolyn R. Holleran '60, of Reading, Pa., one of the project's key upporter . he and her hu band, T.

Jerome Holleran, got the ball rolling after their granddaughter, candour field hockey player Katherine William '07 of

elin grove, Pa., told chem artificial turf would provide a ignificancly berrer play­ing urfuce.

LEFT WO EN'S FIELO HOCKEY CAPTAINS, SEN­

IORS /1 HLEY KENERSON ANO CAITLYN

CONNOLLY UNVEIL THE PLAQUE RECOGNIZING

THE ORS WHO MAOE THE NEW TURF FIELD

PROJECT A REALITY.

RIGHT T HOLLERAN FAMILY - JERRY, CAROLYN

ANO OAL HTER LAURA WILLIAMS - AND MEM­

BERS OF HE WOMEN'S FIELD HOCKEY TEAM ARE

ALL SMILES AS THE NEW ARTIFICIAL TURF FIELD

IS DEDICATED

During the dedication of the field, Timothy Arm rrong '93 prai ed hield .

a srudenr, Arm trong was captain of the ollege' fir r nationally ranked men' lacro e ream with hields as hi coach.

ow vice pre ident for adverti ing al ac Google, Arm crong aid the les­on he learned from hi parents and fam­

ily - and during his year at onneccicur ollege - were invaluable.

"Fran is ju t an incredible per on," Arm trong aid. "The giving that Fran has done i nor ju r on the athletic field."

hitlds, known for hi enthu iasm about amel athleti , aid he was thrilledwith the new turf. When he aw an a rial photo of the new field, he was stunned. "You know what it was like? Ir was like winning a game!" hieldgrinned ro the applau e of the audience.

rcgory T. Waldron, vice pre ident for college advancement, aid the field i

Moving Connecticut College ahead

a tribute to the creative efforts of alumni from different eras and background , parent and srudenc from many reams, and raff from many pares of the ollege. All, he aid, came together and got the job done.

The dedication plaque honor the genero ity of the following individual for making the field a reality: the Holleran , in honor of Katherine Williams '07; Donald and Patricia Armstrong P'93; hield · Wayne and Debra Roe P'03'05'09; James H. acely P'91 and Thoma arely '91, in mem-ory of Diane Lewis ately '63 P'91; Jean

. Tempel '65; and Mark '82 and Victoria McKittrick liva '81.

President orman Fain rein opened rhe dedication by quoting Walt

Whitman: "I believe a leaf of gras i no le s than rhe journey-work of the tars." Fain rein went on ro thank everyone pre ent for the "journey-work" that made the field a reality.

reve eorge, the ollege's manager of planning, d ign and construction, d cribed how the field was built and lauded the work of Unique Concepts of Calhoun, a., owned and led by the late Donnie Lee Bailey. Bailey' crew rallied to fini h the work on chedule after hi untimely death, wanting both co honor him and co ensure that the field was ready for the ational Di ability pores Allian e World ham pion hip in early July .

After the dedication, family and friend remembered Bailey by dedicating a tree in his memory near the field.

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THE DEDICATION SEPTEMBER 24

of the new all-weacher turf at the Lyn and David ilfen Track and Field i ra�gible evidence of ch good new coming our of the ffice of ollege Advan ement: The Annual Fund i up as are grant , gift and commitment .

"Ir' hard work bur deeply rewarding," said reg Waldron, vice president for col­lege advancement. "We're aggr ively and confidently ercing and achieving goal in fundrai ing that are imperative ro the ollege' continued u ces ."

verall, onnecticur ollege rai ed I 1.7 million in cash during 2004-05.

And, Waldron aid ju r rhree month into the current fi cal year, the ollege has already added 1.5 million into ir coffer - 278 percent higher chan the ame rime lase year. Among d1e growch

area in fi cal year 2005:

■ The Annual Fund surpa ed ics goalof 3.7 million, up 12 percent overrhe previou year.

■ ifc from living individual , cor­poration and foundation were up28 percent, co I 0.5 million from

8.2 million the previou year. (This icem includ 6.9 million in budget enhancement, the endowment, capital gift and deferred gift , plus che Annual Fund.)

■ The ollege rai ed I 8 million in newgift and pledge - up 34 percentover che previou fiscal year.

According co Waldron, the only areachat was down chi past year wa beque c , which are gift given ac death and chu omeching over which the

allege ha no control. Beque c were down 74 percent, from 4.6 million rwo year ago to 1.2 million lase year. "When you exclude beque c (from char

18 million figur ) we are up 90 percent, 16.8 million ver u 8.8 million the

previou year,' Waldron aid.

oal for che currenc year include:

■ Rai ing 4 million chrough cheAnnual Fund

■ Rai ing 7 million for che renovationof Mar hall and Hamilton re idencehall , as well as funding the cla roomimprovement project

■ Adding 4-5 million ro the endowment

In addition to the turf field funding,ocher recent ucce e include a 3 mil­lion gift from u an Eckert Lynch '62 to upporc the cudy � ay/Teach Away

program, a 2 million gift from Jerry and arolyn Holleran '60 and gift of 700,000 to upporc maintenance of

Blau rein Humanirie enter. "We're running on all cylinder here in Becker Hou e," Waldron aid. "Thar' che only way we're going co reach the ollege' financial goal , and I'm commicced to eeing ic happen."

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THE HIGHLANDER YACHT SAILED INTO BOSTON HARBOR THIS PAST JUNE AND TREATED APPROXIMATELY 110 ALUMNI, PARENTS, STUDENTS, FACULTY MEM­BERS, TRUSTEES AND DISTINGUISHED GUESTS TO A MAGICAL EVENING.

THE HIGHLANDER IS OWNED BY THE FORBES FAMILY, AND TRUSTEE JAMES BERRIEN '74, AS PRESIDENT OF FORBES MAGAZINE GROUP, HAS HOSTED SIMILAR EVENTS FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

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Returning to the classroom

CLASSROOM RENOVATIONS ARE A

priority for onneccicuc College, and the las of I 955 has already celebrated a

u ce ful project in upporc of this goal.pan of their 50th reunion gift, mem­

ber of che das pledged upporr for the Annual Fund and the las of 1955 Fanning Hall das room renovation proj­ect. verall, the da s rai ed more than

201,000. Their two-pronged approach ro fundrai ing was ucce ful; they rai ed

nearly 67,000 for the Annual Fund and more than 134,000 for the renovation of Fanning 306.

Renovation cook place over che um mer, bur were haired briefly during

reunion weekend o che da could coa c their ucce amid c che con cruc­cion progre . Hour lacer, che work re urned and - with rime co pare -was completed before che new eme cer was er co begin.

cudenc caking cour es in Fanning 306 returned co find their cablec-arm chairs replaced with comfortable eac and row of cables to allow plenty of room for notebooks and laptop . Hidden under the cabl are power ouclec , and the room is outfitted with wirel network capabili-ti . The media podium ac the fronc of che room indud a R, DVD, laptop and document camera to allow for the projec­tion of images onco a wall creen.

Jane Dornan mich '55, das pre idenc, commend das agenc chairs Martha "Mulfy" William on Barhydt, Mary Jane "Mimi' Dreier Berkowit2.and Julia Evan Doering who cho e chis project. "They truly found omeching char we could rand

behind as a das ; it i a project chat i meaningful to the

ollege, bur al o one char our das can relate to ince we all pent counrl hour itcing in

rho very ame classroom . I am ure chat their choughcful deci­ion was the fir r rep in our

fundrai ing u e .'

ABOVE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF

1955 GATHER AMID CONSTRUCTION IN

FANNING 306.

LEFT, THE NEWLY RENOVATED FANNING

306

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Strengthening the sciences

MASS SPECTROMETERS, HIGH­

pre ure liquid chromatography (HPL ) systems, micro-Aow pumping system .. . The names wouldn't mean much co many of us, bur when Herbert F. Kenny I l l '80 saw d1em on a Connecticut CoUege wish list he knew exactly what mey were and how he could help me College get them.

The list was published duee years ago when me College announced the Kresge Challenge for the cience and included information of the type of equipment that would be purchased once the chal­lenge grant wa ucces fuUy completed. In reviewing me list, Kenny aw an opportunity co help hi alma macer save a significant amount of money. As vice pre ident of global commercial operations at Thermo Electron orp., he was able co

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arrange me purcha e of demonstration equipment at a more affordable price for me College.

Kenny's interest in chemistry was parked at onnecticuc College in the

late 1970 when Profes or Trudy mich walked into cla and said that she'd just seen the most amazing piece of equip­ment. It was an HPLC system being u ed ar Pfizer Inc in nearby Groton.cientists rill u e this equipment today.

An HPLC works by injecting a scientist'sdi solved sample into a Aow cream ofvariou olvents under high pre sure.The san1ple is then pas ed through apacked column co eparace out individ­ual components within minutes. verthe past decade, HPL s have been rou­tinely coupled to mass spectrometers in

order co analyze and determine me molecular masses and obtain identifiable fragmentation "fingerprints" of the indi­vidual components. The applications are numerous - new drug discovery, deter­mining pe ticide levels in drinking water, identifying biomarkers for dis­eases and in forensic science applica­tions. In fact, Thermo Electron's ma s spectrometer are featured on the celevi-ion show "C I: Miami" and" I:

New York." Kenny's budding interest in chemistry

developed into an independent study under Profe sor mith, and chat experi­ence netted him a job direcdy our of col­lege ac Pfizer as a research cientist. After cwo years of lab experience, primarily uti­lizing HPL for researcl1 application ,

he joined Thermo Eleccron, che world'

large c ciencific in crument company. He

er die hi ucces all che way back co

onne cicuc ollege and was eager co

help che ollege advan e ic cience pro­gramming. In che mid-1980s, Kenny met a new onnecci uc ollege faculty mem­ber wirh an intere c in bioluminescence _ an area of rudy chat would greatly

benefit from the lace c technological equipment. Kenny was quick co a k if there was a way he could help. The facul­ty member was Bruce Branchini, Han and Ila Mc ollum '21 Val1lceich Prof., or of hemi cry.

ver the pa c few year , Kenny has worked with Branchini and helped the

hemi rry Department purchase a cand­alone HPLC, an HPL /ion crap mas speccromecer and a micro-Row HPL pump upgrade. le i unusual for a chool che ize of Con necticu c ollege co have chi cype of cace-of-che-arc equipment ace ible co cudenc . The end result is numerou classroom and research appli­cations for boch tudenc and faculty char might ocherwi e not be available.

Branchini ay , "There are many benefit of having modern re earch grade insrrumencacion available co a chemi try department chat are apparent in tudenc-faculry re earch outcome . Providing srudencs with hands-on expe­rience using high-end equipment i e pe ially beneficial to tudencs who in rend to work in chi field or attend graduate chool after graduation."

Kenny's influence at onnecticuc ollege are felt in many ocher way as

well. An active volunteer, Kenny was a member of che Kresge hallenge ceering

ommirree and helped with che fundrai ing effort that resulted in 2 million in new gifc de ignaced for che purchase and maintenance of ciencific equipment. His wife, Barbara Marino Kenny, al o a mem­ber of the las of 1980, hares hi zeal for onnecticur ollege. Her volunteer efforts cencer around che Annual Fund; as a clas agenc co-chair, he and her fellowco-chair ec their reunion gifc efforcshigh and recently broke the overall recordfor 25th reunion gifc

Merci, Pierre et Alix Deguise

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE profe or Pierre and Alix Degui e, who died within hour of each ocher lase July, were known for tl1eir dedjcaced reaching, choughcful­nes and genero icy. o friend ay it was no urpri e chat Pierre Degui e lefc

10,000, income from which will be u ed for the purchase ofFrencl1 books by che library. The gift was accepted by the Board ofTru tee in April.

LEFT: ALIX DEGUISE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

EMERITUS OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

RIGHT: PIERRE DEGUISE, BRIGIDA PACCHIANI

ARDENGHI PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF FRENCH

"He wa a literary man and loved lit­erature," aid Jacqueline hadourne, retired profe or emeriru of French, who e family wa clo e co che Degui e for decade . Though Pierre appeared quiet and hy, she aid ' He could peak for hours and was very vibrant" when di cus ing French literarure.

The ollege expect co begin u ing Degui e' gift next year by purchasing books of French literature, aid Marian

hil cone '80, director of information r ource at the harl E. hain Library.

he recalled char che Degui had been "good friends of the library for many year " and were regularly involved in book ale that rai ed money for material .

An in redibly clo e couple who u ed co sign their letter with one name

• (PierreAlix), che Degui e left an indeliblemark on the ollege. Pierre, Brigida

Pacchiani Ardenghi Profes or Emeriru of French, came co in 1958, teaching French and Romance language and becoming chair of the French and Italian department . Hi lifelong interest in French- wiss writer Benjamin on cant led him co write four books and numer­ous arti Jes on the author. After he retired in 1981, Pierre concribured co the publi­cation of on cane' com piece work .

Alix, a sociare pro­fe or emeriru of

French and Italian helped launch

women's srudie program.

The Degui e were involved in the lives of their colleagues and stu­dent boch in and ou c ide the clas -room, often invit­

ing chem co their home for dinner, aid elly Mur rein, Hanna Hafk brink

Profe or Emeritus of French and I calian. Bue they al o expres ed their rhoughcful­nes in ocher way . If they read an article or book on a ubjecc chat reminded chem of omeone, Murscein aid they would buy ic for chem.

When Mur rein ucceeded Pierre Degui e as chair of the French depart­ment, he remembered being nervous about her unfamiliarity with the academ­ic sy tern in Anlerica. he found encour­agement from Degui e, her mencor. "He gave me a how-co book and it was a won­derful in truccional guide," he said. "Thar gesture wa emblematic of the kjnd of thing chey would do."

After their reciremenc, the Deguises vollLJlteered for the Anlerican ancer

ociery, Lawrence & Memorial Ho piral and Anlnescy Incernacional.

"They were very ocially engaged," Mur rein aid, "on campu and in the world."

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Obituaries .. .... 7,;

_Fall_ _______ June :15

Winter Sept. 15

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75TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

34 Cormpondmr: Ann (Andy) rocker \'(fheder, akonncr Bay, 1215

Main Road, Apr. 30 I, Tivenon, RI 0287

35 Cormpondmr: abrina ( ubby)Burr anders. 33 Mill r., ni, E, We,hcrsfidd, 06109

REUNION NEWS: n Friday. June 3, my husband, Harry, and I, Sabrina (Subby) Burr ander , drove ro the ykes ·cry luncheon, ro which Harry was graciously invit­ed. We ar nexr ro Merion Uoey) Ferri Rirrer, who had come wirh her daughter Ruthie R.ircer Ladd '72. Ruthie brought a hand ome, year-old black Labrador retriever, who was being trained as a seeing­eye dog. He was so good and quiet. I parred him and he laid hi head on my foot. After the meal, William Frasure, profes or of government, poke on "The United cares and iemam in a hanging World,"

which was mo r inter ring. He said that, ar the time, eight people were srudying in Vietnam.

To my great regret, an old, dear family friend had planned hi wed­ding on arurday, June 4, and I was unable co be with Joey char day. he enjoyed herself, however, and was thrilled, when, ac rhe end or

acurday' Annual Alumni Meeting, he was introduced with a randing ovarian and given a lovely

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Photos by Jon Crispin and A. Vincent carano

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bouquet. he happened ro vi ir che aroline Black Garden behind inal rcage and was dazzled by

rhe handsome planting . After arcending rhe crvice of Remembrance in che chapel he did a tour of che hu- riffis collection in the harl E. hain Library.

Joey was al o impr ed by the Morri on dorm where he rayed for rhe weekend, e pccially the laundry room and che common room wirh it view of the river. he said the vi ir was a mo r delightful rime for her, and he hoped he could make it in another five year

o do I. Annual Fund: $4,905, 48%

36 lass 01 Edi,or, CC: Conn«tin11 olltgr Mngazi11r, 270 Mohegan Ave., ew London. CT 06320 mvhow@conn oll.edu

70TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

38 Cormpo11dr111: Mary Caroline( I. .) Jenks w�,. 865 n1ral Ave., Apr. A404. eedham, MA 02 92

3 9 Cormpo11dmu: Ber y ParcellsArms. I� . Box I 18, Marion, MA 02738 and Bearrice Dodd Fosrer, 3730 dbury

irde, Apr. 704, Venice, FL 34293, beab2@aol.com

Beatrice Dodd Foster and I, Betsy Parcells Arms, want co thank each or you who send in your news.

Ruth Hale Buchanan enjoyed a visir wirh all 12 great-grandchil­dren and parents (ac the ame rime!) rhi Aug. ar her ewporr, RI, home. The great-grands range in age from 16 co almo c 2. " ever a dull momenc!" ur hats are off ro you, Ruch.

Hearts full of love go our ro Pat Brooks, who lo c her hu band, Ted, on April 7 after eight years of one catasrrophi illn after anoth­er. he i leaving for Europe and a grand cour via riverboat from Am rerdam ro Budapest. Par was orry nor ro have made our 65th.

he has been a loyal corresponden Estelle Taylor Watson an

husband West still living in Darien CT, in the same house for the p 55 year . "We arc in reasonabl health con idering. Both of us a a rive in local affuir . " celle is cil in estate al , busy elling arc an antiques in Fairfield ounry. Th have four children, all married, an 9 grandchildren - a busy life.

Libby Taylor Dean writes Fro reenville, DE, "Recently our a

had a lovely and informative lunch eon with about five grad Thanks co Mary Jane idy [ assiscanc director of annual giving] for exploring whether or nor co tart a club in chi area." Betsy Carr, n­ior development officer with th� College's Offi e of Advancement, also accended the meeting, which he found "extremely positive with

many comments on how much che college means co the alum pr enc."

Margery Armstrong McNally writ , "I have pokcn many rime co my family about the 65th reunion last year. We enjoyed each and every event. My legs are gradu­ally gcrring beccer; I have only u cd rhe wheelchair on c."

ur sympathy and love go ouc the Friend and family of EdithFrey Higle, who died March IO in Tu on. he and her hu band had an active and long life rogecher. Edie loved her rime painting in watercolor and gardening and poke with great pride about her

year . Edie was a home eco­nomics major, lively and very involved in college doings.

Bea Dodd Foster writ , "In May, I penc rwo weeks in R, an1id the 120 cow and calv ac daughter u an and on-in-law John' ranch. Alas, cwo day after my arrival, at dinner, John collap ed and was gone. What a hock. John had been in failing health. We h Id up well through cwo ervi in Lakeview, and another 10 houri away in anta ruz, where John had grown up. Peter, granddaughter

classnotes

Unique prints "Through my monocypes, I invite viewer co bring their own narra­tive ro rhe image, creating a moment of collaboration," ay Christina Carroll '82. The Lo Angele arri r, who rudied with Maureen Mc be and Barkley Hendricks as a rudio arr major ar

, be ame enamored with monocype printmaking as a cu­dent ar che chool of the Mu eum of Fine Arr , Bo con. "The creation of a monocype (a one-of-a-kind print, 'the unique print') is chaotic, messy, impul ive and arisfying. And the fini hed print, with its crisp and police pri cine edges, i equally pleasing."

Rai ed in a "ru cic canyon" in ouchern alifornia, arroll

draw much of her in pirarion from nature. "Ir bring me a en e of logic and peace."

In 2003, arroll curated an exhibit ar the Writer' uild in L.A., "Line By Line: The Writer

Arci r," featuring a lifetime ofdrawings, kerche and carving by her father, noted relevi ion writer Bob Carroll Jr., who worked on "I Love Lucy."

When he i not in her rudio or working as an exhibition director ar an L.A. gallery, arroll loves ro cook. he hopes to illu -trace and write a monograph cookbook, "one encouraging expre ion and experimentation, like arc and a well-lived life."

For more information and co conracc che arri r, vi it www. chri tinacarroll- cudio.com. MVH

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J ica' fucher, enc hi plane co save us the drive. My family is hriveling: Wendy in louccsrer, MA; usan in

R; rwo ex-son -in-law and J ica in Anchorage. We were rogerher for the servi cs, and I returned home afrer cleaning our closers. ue 1 doing remarkably well."

Betsy ParceUs Arms ay , " hurch and I celebrared our 66rh wedding anniversary in July with a gathering for our children, grand­children and 9 grear-grandchildren. Whoever could believe we would live co ee rhi happy group growing up? Keep the new Rowing. We send our fond r good wi hes ro all of you. Love from Bea and Betsy."

40 Corrrspo,idmt: Franc rs

Barno., 87 rlani m,e1. "" London, CT 06320

REUNION NEWS: Tho e who were unable co arrend our 65rh reunion mi ed a wonderful rime. We're orry - we mi sed you, coo. The alumni office did an our-randing job wirh an inrere ring

a sorrmenr of programs, grear food and a van ar our dispo al rhar cook u door ro door, driving on grassand sidewalks ro accommodare us.Arrending be ide my elf were:Barbara Wynne Secor, IreneKennel Pekoe, Miriam BrooksButterworth and Evelyn GilbertThorner. (Miriam and Evelynbrought rheir daughrer .) LaeitaPollock Israelite arrended rhe

yke luncheon. ow onro newfrom cl mares:

Sybil BindJoss im was head­ing for Prince Edward I land ar rhe time of Reunion and regrerred rhe confficr. They spend winter in Yarmouthporr, MA.

Jean Moran Gaffey till lives wirh husband Joe in Wallingford, CT, in the big house they have been in for many year . They have eighr grandchildren. Jean has ba k rrou­bl and walks wirh grear difficulry.

Elizabeth Morton Jordan' daughrer-in-law, hri , wrore for

Berry, who is unable co communi­care. he has been living in an assisred living faciliry.

Elaine Perry Sheldon re endy moved ro a retirement community in the Albany, , area and enjoys ir rhere. he hear from Clari a Weekes Burgevin, who i in

incinnati. Elaine vi iced her sisrer June P rry Mack '42 in the hicago area thi past ummer. Last year, he and June pent rhe monrh of March in Maui. Elaine enjoy our maga-1.ine very much.

Elizabeth Pfieffer Wilburn and hu band Bill moved ro Baltimore three year ago ro be near rheir three children and eighr grandchildren. They are living in a retirement communiry, bur Bill i in rhe nur ing ection as he i legal­ly blind and has other health prob­lems. They lived in Fr. Worth, TX, for 35 years, so it was an adjusr­menr. Bill rerired from rhe U ..

avy afrer 26 years and rheir lasr rour of dury was in Pari , which was a wonderful experience. Betsy ends her best co everyone and is sorry she was unable co arrend Reunion.

Mildred Brown O' eil lives in Winrer Haven, FL, for parr of the year and pends rhe ummer monrh in ourh Lyme, CT. he ends her besr regards ro our class.

Although he pent only one year ar before rran ferring, Beth Perrin Wright made long­lasting friendship and has kept in couch wirh several people over the year . he mer her husband for the fir r rime when he was 15 years old and married him in '41. They will pend their 64rh anniversary on rhe

R coast. When her hu band retired from the Army, they moved from VA co a delightful rown in central R, where rhey hiked, climbed mountains and kied. They losr a daughter in '98 and have rwo on . Beth and Dick are now living

in a continuing care retirement community on the Rogue River, Rogue alley Manor.

Annual Fund; $20,888, 57%

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41 Corrrspondmu: Hcnricna Dearborn� atson, 100 Anna oode Way. Apt. 228, ufTolk, A 23434 and Kay Ord M h ney. 1208 Horizon Lane, Medford, OR 97504

65TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

Mary (HoUy) Holohan Waldron and daughter Michele Daly were in London in lare Feb., early March for 10 days vi iring Mary' grand­daughter, Maura, who was srudying ar the U. of London for as mcsrer. They had a wonderful rime visiting mu eum , raking the famous boar rrip down rhe Thame ro

reenwich, hopping ar Harrod's and having tea ar the Rin co cele­brate Maura's 21 r birthday. They even Rew co Ireland ro vi it lri h relatives. Ir was very cold, and they had now, even in London!

Jane Kennedy ewman has moved into the same nursing horn rhar her husband has been in, bur rhey now have a new larger aparr­menc in the assi red living ection.

Doris Goldstein Levinson i making the move ro a home in a retirement complex with a single bedroom and large living room. h and I (Henrietta Dearborn Watson) compared nores on rhe new experience of having co u e a cane for balance.

Cathy Elias Moore is still "on rhe go" ro coin conventions in Kan as iry, r. Loui and an Diego. Her coin auction in April wa ucce ful. athy enjoyed London and codand in June. he wanr u co know rhar he is till an avid Philly fan.

I wi h I had room ro hare Chips Van Rees ConJon's

hrisrmas card, which was filled with new of ger-rogerhers with family and friends. he mentioned the bitter pe od winter, but before he knew ir, they were back playing golf and croquer.

As for me (Henrietta), I'm fir­ring in ni ely with rhe outhern way of life (except for rhe collard green and grirs)! I gu my biggest

news is my grandson' graduation from arholic Univer iry law school rhis pasr pril.

I Co- orrespondenc Kay Ord McChesney wrir , "A full month before my 85rh birthday, my daughrer, Donna, asked me co save rhe arurday afrer my birthday ro 'hang our' (her phrase) with her, in her home in Talent, R. he was mo r in i rent thac I arrive at 2:30 p.m. When I arrived, on the d r, he met me and corred me co her

front door. When I opened rhe door, rhe hall, living room and din­ing room were filled wirh my friend and her , and a surpri e parry wa in full wing.

hampagne, rabies full of goodies, wine and a beauriful chocolate cake rapped with fr h raspberries, bal­loon and decorarion made rhe

ene f, rive. The b r part was a m mory book, which my cl1ildren presented ro me. They concacced my friends all over rhe country for contributions of memorabilia; the book i a real treasure! Each gu t was pr en red with a bottle of wine, decorared with a pecial label my kid designed. My 85rh birthday was a howling success!"

Kay sent rhe following updaccs: Eliubeth (Bette) Smith

Twadell ecs herself as "luck-y." he play tennis "grandmother' dou­bl " twice a week! The game is lower (no urpri e there!) and erv-

ing underhand i legal. Berre is involved in chur h work, sing in rhe choir, belong ro a garden club and i a very enrhusiasti devoree of Elderho rel. he acrended an Elderho rel on Amelia I land, a lovely place. Berte's grand on was married in Beijing and broughc hi bride ro PA rhi ummer.

Margaret Stoecker Mo eley was known as " roeck" ar , but is now "Maggie." he and "Mo e" are in a emi-ho piral faciliry. Boch have eriou medical problem . They are in a two-bedroom apart­ment, receive all their meal , bur rhey hope rhi i nor a permanent

icuacion. We'll all hope for a rapid recovery for you boch!

Mary Walsh Yate lives in Lincoln, E. he i a widow, i fine, and i till living in her own home. Mary i noc very acrive due co a bro­ken leg and archrici . he pends

hri cmas holiday with her family in Phoenix; chat i about the excenr of her traveling. Mary and I agree chat i a wonderful place, and char great thing are happening

holastically and financially ac the " .ollege on the hill."

Please ler the alumni offi e (800-888-7549) know of your newadd and celephone number sowe can "hunc you down" for columnnews. The following classmates donoc have a currenc celephone num­ber Ii ced in the mo c rccenc lass of'41 ro rer: Kathryn Verie Pugh,Sybil Ward Smith, Mary Cutts,Mary Helen Strong-Heller andVera Van Nest Judd. Thank you!

42 Corrtrpo11dn11: Jane Worley Peak, \ mson Hall, Apt. 306, 6251 Old Dominion Dr., Mclean, VA 22101, 1wpc,ak@aol.com

Lee Eitingoo Thomp on has lived in a house at Heritage Hills, a retirement community in Westchester County, , ince '9 I. Her hu band died nine years ago. he had a fascinating career: she

worked for Lift Magazine and ,ports Illustrated for 28 years, most­ly in , bur also in other places around the world, including 12 wonderful years in Pari . he enjoy gardening and reading, but her real love i working once a week for the Women' Re ource enter a a court advocate for abu ed women. Lee has two sons who live nearby: Stephen, who works for Time Warner, and Don, who i a teacher of hi cory and economi ar Riverdale ountry Day chool in the Bronx. Boch on are married and each has a son and a daughter, all of whom are rill in elemencary or high schools.

After the death of her first hus-

band, Lois Bachman Edwards married a man he had known for 35 y rs. They pend mo c of their time in Ml, which they dearly love, buc have a reriremenc aparcmenc in FL, where they expe c co live per­manencly when they can no longer go back and forth.

Franny Hyde Forde concinu to do a uperb job as cl agenr, keeping in cou h with all of our lassmares and extracting money

from chem in a painl way! In April, he and her son, Rick, wenc co Bluffcon, , where he has a hou e "on" a golf cour e. he had lunch with Jean taats Lorish at Hilton Head, abour 20 mil from Rick's home, where Jean has lived for 13 year . Jean' husband died rwo years ago. Franny had co ercle for a telephone conversation with Mary (Pete) Franklin Gehrig, as they were unable co gee cogecher. Franny, Justine Clark and Connie Hughes McBrien went cogecher co the ykes luncheon (for cho e alum­nae who have elebraced their 50th reunion) ar the llege in June.

Pri cilJa Redfield Johnson's daughter, Pam, wrote co Franny char " ilia" i doing well in her new anraccive aparrmenc in an • isred living place in Orton, KS. he doesn't complain about the food, he plays bridge and i generally concenr, bur she was nor up co attending her grandson' wedding in AZ.

Mary Blackmon mith loves her lirde hou e acrached co the home of her daughter, rerchen, and her family. They have a great view of Mohonk Mountain House, and "Blackie" enjoys watching the many birds that u e the bird feed­ers. recchen i an avid gardener, both Rower and vegetable. he also painc every day in her studio. Blackie proudly reported that Gretchen's hu band won a

uggenheim grant co write hi next book. Blackie is a grear-grandmoth­er: her son Eric's on, Patrick mich, and hi wife, Rene, had rwin , Jacob and Ro alie, born lase Feb. Blackie

classnotes

Former Pr idenc Claire L. Gaudiani '66 was recognized for her lifelong dedication ro philanchropic ervice by Indiana Univer. icy' enter of Philanrhropy. he wa one of rwo re ipi­encs of the Henry A. Rosso Medal for lifi rime achievemenc in chical fundrai ing.

hief Judge Joan Feeney '75 of rhe U .. Bankruptcy ourt, Di trice of Mas a hu ere , recently re eived ch Bo con Bar Association' Haskell ohn Discingui hed Judicial ervice Award.

Lawrence Gottesman '79 joined the international law firm of Bryan ave LLP as a parmer in irs ew York office. orcesman concentrates his pra ri e in che area of creditor ' right , bankrupt­cy law and ouc-of-courr workouts and restructuring.

Jane Sanders Englehardt '80 as urned che po icion of pre i­dem and chief executive officer of Bide-A-Wee Hom Association and will over ee the company'� three locations in Manharran and in Wancagh and Wesrhampton, Long I land.

David Fleishman '85 was appointed up rinrendenc of hool for happaqua ( Y) encral hool Di ti c. Previously, Fleishman was as i cane superincendenr for Welle ley Public chools in Welle Icy, MA.

Daniella Gordon '01, a recenc graduate of th Rutgers University chool of Law at amden, received rhe 2005 la of 1995 raduacion Award, which honor a graduating rudenc who has made ignificanc concribucion co the community.

al o has a granddaughter, Maya, who ha con iderable arci cic calenc inherited from her parents.

The las of 1942 send ym­

pathy co Dr. Harri Wei e, who reported rhe deach of hi wife, Elinor Eells Weis e, on l / 12/05 in Moore Haven, FL.

43Corrtrpo11dm1: Jane 1orms Wennci , 27 Pine Avenue. Madison. 07940

44 Corrtrpo11dmts: Eli Abrahom Josephson, 7006 Upland Ridge Dr., Adanmown, MD 21710, neildisc@aol.com and Alice Anne Carey Weller, t. Paul' Towers, I 00 Bay Place. Apt. 1504, akland, 9 6 I 0, gwdler@spunail.ne1

ancy (Sizzle) Hotchkiss Marshall went co her 65th reunion at c. Margaret' chool. ixceen returned, including Gloria (Tedi) Pierce Gould. i1.1.le has retired

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from Pembrook chool, bur ub occasionally. he al o play renni C\vice a week and walks. Two grear­grandch ild ren, almo r I , who e mother are i rer , live nearby, as do izz.le' daughrer. he has fun with once-a-week baby care.

Mona Friedman Jacob on had a wonderful rrip with on Perer ro D, George's home rare, where

chey vi ired fumily and were in che mid r of buffalo herd . They enjoyed che Wild Wi c! r home at

rolina Meadow in hapel Hill, , he play bridge and keep

active. Frederica Giles Reily ha

moved to a reciremenr complex where cheir apartmenr overlooks che Missi ippi River with a view of river traffic, including the five-deck pad­dle wheelers char go to Memphi . he pent a monrh lasr ummer in

Porr Angel and ome time in M near Poplarville. Her children are in Baton Rouge, M and Lake Foresr, IL "We don't get to ee them , often as we would like."

Dori (Dody) Campbell Safford's only grand hild, a grand­son, will arrend Williams liege, which his fucher, grandfurher, greac­grandfurher and grear-grear-grandfu­rher all arrended. Thi i very good family news! Dody said goodbye to duce good friends, bur "chis is one of the perils of living a long life."

hirley BerHn Kahn's daughrer­in-law, Ann Kahn, nr che follow­ing, "Dear hirley, at 81 years, is in dire scraics from dementia and pinal nerve problem so chat he i either in bed or in a wheelchair. I doubt that you will ee h r ar a reunion, although he talks of going."

Patricia Garrett Wiebolr writ rhat Barbara Barlow

chaefer is che only one who might remember her ince Pat i tran -ferred ro tanford for her junior year. "I m ved t chi 'old fogey' home a year and a half ago and am

K bur need to be on oxygen 24 hours a day. My 1wo misons dem are handicapped daughter Wendy,

age 54, and car' am."' V irginia Passavant

Henderson wrires, " id died Feb. 8 very suddenly. He just mi ed hi 83rd birthday. For his ake, it's good he wenr quickly. lc's a bummer och­erwi e." Passy has our sympathy.

Vi.rginia Webe.r Marion has had a hip repla ed, "now only one joint co go. or happy with the golden years ac all. We are in FL wishing we were orth." Flew up ro id Hender on' funeral.

After thi past "dreadful winrer" in hesrer, CT, Barbara now Delaney i looking for a pleasanr winter home-away-from-home. uggescion welcome! Barbie ees tratton icolson Barclay, who

lives nearby in Essex. randson Morgan Delaney 'O I i tea hing in Porcland, R. All three grand­daughters arc in college (not ). Barbie' busy wich local causes and doesn't tray far from h rer.

Gloria (Tedi) Pierce Gould declares that he is no, bionic with a hip replacement and pacemaker.

he ee ancy Hotchkiss Mar hall, who i as beautiful as ever. Tedi' fumily is healthy and busy - children, nine grand hil­dren and ix great . " orry no movie tars or lympic champ ."

Elinor Houston Oberlin till enjo life, bur do not rravel. "We have a lively life ar the Fountain [in Palm Desert, ]." Fini hed and publi hed her b ok, unset with rhe Dnisies, and made enough co cover expen . "It was a lor of fun, both in the writing and promorion."

Lois Web ter Ricl<lin and aul have lived in Bri col, RJ, since '52.

randdaughcer Ruby Wells g cs her BA thi year from Rhode I land

hool of Design (RJ D). randson lsaa Well received a B

in engineering from Roger William . in June. Youngest granddaughrer will encer kinder­garten in ept. Loi tries co keep up with C\VO other grand in PA. wn children and pou es are well.

Lila Sullivan Murphy drove ro

60 l: ,0,,1 llllT l1Hlh,I )Hl,All'I: f.\11 .tto,

Florida with a friend in Jan. he i planning a more extended cay later.

o many friends live there andrarely ome orch. Lila play a lotof bridge to challenge her brain.

he exerci e regularly and cillworks with the Pr ervation o iecyof ewport, RJ, in the ummer."Anyone oming thi way, pleasegive me a call."

Betty Monroe canton ay char, at 83, lif. i good for her. he regularly ees her four children, who live nearby, but se I of tepdaughrers Brooksie and

Elizabeth, who live in VT and WA, respectively. Her rep-grand on, a recent We leyan graduare, i involved in filmmaking with hi dad, Jay raven. exr film is Disnppenrnnces, rarring Kris Kristoffer on. Beery keep busy with volunreering and i enjoying her gard n. he has high praise for the magazine. " has certain­ly develop d inro a fir r- I insti­tution. I'd love co go back and be a rudenr now."

45 ormpo11dm1: Ann Ld.ievrc I lcrmann, 1803 Turban urr, Fon Myers, FL 3390 -1619, alhcrmph@carthlink.net

REUNION NEWS: reetings, '45 clas maces! Hopefully you all re eived the letter and photo that were senr soon after our 60th.

Reunion '05 attendees from our class included: Ann LeLievre Hermann, Anne McCarthy Garrison and Earl, Betts Ander on Wissman, Betty Barnard McAllister, Connie Barnes Mermann, Edna Hill DuBruJ, Florence Murphy Gorman, Fran Conover Church and John, Joyce toddard Aronson, Kate wife, Marcia Oo) Fau t McNees, Marje Lawrence Weidig, annie Bailey eely,

atalie Bigelow Barlow, Pat Feldman Whjtestone, Peggy Piper Hanrahan, Ruth Veevers Mathieu, arah ( eb) Bauernschmidt Murray and

ruart and Eli:zaberh (Trimmie) Trimble Crosman. I'm ure we would all be happy to hare our pcr­onal experiences; may I uggesr

that you phone a classmate on the above Ii c and lee her cell you about our reunion fun.

Reunion was too wonderful to be cond n ed into one brief report, o I will includ half here and half

in the n t i ue! The whole reunion experience

- from Thursday evening, June 2,co unday morning, June 5 - wasdelighrful. ur cl. was headquar­tered in Morri on, a refurbi hedand immaculate dorm in ch"Plex," where we appre iaced our private room and a comfortableclass hospitaliry lounge. We con­ne red, chatted, laughed andenjoyed each other' company from early morning until lace evening.lncerescingly, rather than rake timeto hare family photo and memen­to of the past, we found our elveschatting abour our pr enc acriviciand incer t . We remini ed a bitand then gor busy enjoying the col­lege fa ilities, the program ched­uled for our edification, and mo cof all each other!

n che firsr evening, we were acrually nsked to knve che dining room! We were having u h a g d time, we were unaware char Harri Refectory, a campus dining fuciliry attached ro our dorm, was do e<l and we were the only gue c remaining! The next night we got o raucous in our class lounge that a

hu band from a younger cla appeared about I 0:30 p.m., asked us ro "please be mo" quiet nnd co11r­teo1ts," and carefully do ed the door co the hallway o chat our giggl would be I di curbing!

Upon arrival, we each received a 15-page Reunion '05 program thatlisted IO pages of activiti availableduring our brief cay. We rammed in as many as we could. ome of uattended "early bird" tours of the arboretum and che Caroline Black

arden behind and between Vinal

Corcage and Emily Abbey House. (Because Phil and I "courced" in ,, hac w chen called "Vinal (,.udcns," I came home with a heap of digital phoco co hare with him!)

We dis overed new fucilici and n:di vered our old hauncs on a campus bus cour. Many of us accend­cd a mini-d , "A Look ac the cience, Ech_i and Politics of tern ·etts and toning," which informed

and challenged us. We also appreci­aced che caliber of ' alumni whose commencs and observacions were percinenc and indicative of their critical chinking powers.

Bill Ro , professor of govern­mcnc and deparcmenc chair, presenc­d a rimulating mini-class on

"American Foreign Policy and World It crion," which made us really w1 h for a mud1 longer class ion - preferably long enough co cover a "hole m cer' course concenc! We did appreciate the mencal cimula­non and encercainmenc provided in the Reunion hedule as well as ch gourmet feascs.

11 arurday, cl phoco were taken, and the colorful Alumni Parade followed. Ac the Annual Meeting, after che recognition of gift and award , Presidenc Fain rein presenced "The rare of che ollege," followed by question and an ver - and we were very 1mpr ed. The alumni pi nic was held under cencs on rhe ollege Green; rho e who prepared and served ic provided a delightful feast for one and all. We celebrated the lives of deceased lassmar ar the annual ervi e of Remembran e in Harlm hapel.

arurday afternoon, we gathered for excerpcs from a "60 .Minutes" feature on the Heifer Pr je r and Beacri e Biira 'O and a brief cl meeting. Bue the urpri e w a 30-minuce clown gig pr enc­ed by "Happy Anni ." Thar' my cl wn name, and I am a re nc cl wn hool graduate. I was a bit dubious about volunceering ro do chi , but che class was o very arcen-

tive and appreciative with locs of laughter and applau e, char I've vol­unceered co return for our 65ch!

ur newly elected cl officers are Marjorie Lawrence Weidig, presidenc; Ruth Veevers Mathieu and Frances Conover Church, co­chairs of our next reunion; Patricia Feldman Wbjtestone, VP and chair of nomination ; and my elf, Ann Lelievre Hermann, cominu­ing as class correspondenc.

Thanks co at Bigelow Barlow and annje Bailey edy, who did a peccacular job of mak­ing ure chat all wenc well ac our 60ch! And a pe ial thanks co Pat Feldman Whitestone for crving as our presidenc for the lase IO year .

In closing, I wane co mencion the names of tho e who were good enough co lee me know they were unable co make it 10 Reunion: El ie ( cottie) MacMillan Connell, Toni Fenton Tuttle, Beverly Bonfig Cody, Barbara Avery JubeU, Margery (Mjdge) Roger Safford, Shirley Armstrong Meneice, Virginia Bowman Cockran, Semke Riesner Pepper, Virginia Winkler Dunn, Betsy Payne hannon, Mariechen Wilder Smith, Lois Pari ette Ridgway, Ethel Schall Gooch and Jane Breckwoldt Gest. All enc best wishes 10 their classmac !

The las of '45 sends sympa­thy co che fumili and friends of Polly Lockwood Lee, who died 2/24/05; Wilda Peck O'Haruon, who died 3/10/05; and Sarah (Seb) Bauern chmidt Murray, who p ed away on 6/ l 7 /05. They will be mi ed.

The I, of ' 5 ends inceresc ympachy co Ann LeLievre

Hermann, who lo c her husband, Phil, on 8/2 /05.

Annual Fund: $31,428, 63%

46 Cormpo,uirm: Pacri ia mith Brown, 9 Ri hard Rd., Lning1on, MA 02421

60TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

4 7 Cormpo11dr111: Margaret amp chwam, 262 Bornt Hill Road,

Endi on, Y 13760 margam_schwam @juno.com

48 Cormpo11dr111: ancy M rrow ce, 345 25th t., an Fran isco,

9 11 , pollyam@earchlink.net

49 Cormpo11dmt: ale Holman Marks, 110 Blueberry Lane, Jam town, RI 0283

In the Wine r issue, I chr w out ch general que cion, "What are ch good pare and what are the bad pare of arriving at our mid-70 ?" Respon es? A big zero! h, dear. I'll have co be the Little Red Hen (all you lie. majors muse know chat ref­eren e) and "do it mysel["

The best pare about being con-idered "elderly" is chat it' u h a

good excuse. For us, it i a cepc­able:co b coo tired co, co forget co, co not have co, co not expect your­elf co, co not be able co, co not know how co ... do any damn thing we don't wane co do!

or che bad pare: An over­whelming amounc of time seems co be spenc in che repair shop!

I have put a call out for some­one who attended graduation co report on Estelle Parson's featured addr . I have heard it was mar­velous, even included inging, and was very well r ceived. I hope we'll gee a derailed version. (Editor' note: A transcript of celle' commence­menc addr can be found on pp. 20-21 of che magazine' ummer i ue or on " nline" at lmp://www.conncoll.edu/alumni/.)

Ruth Fanjoy King write , "Even if my nephew were nor grad­uating, I would have been there co

hear celle' addr . It was a m -sage for everyone in atcendan e. At one point he burst inco ong co

everyone's delight. Jeanne Webber Clark,

clark5 6@verizon.net, senr che fol­lowing news: "June was a busy

classnotes

month for eeing good friend from '49. Joan Uohnrue) Jo en Bivin came ease with her daughter, JoAnn, who was returning for her 20th reunion. Johnnie penc a few day with us in Duxbury, MA, and we all had dinner at Bud and ally Hackett Chandler's, where we encercained ea h ocher wich hilari­ous tales from our time on campus o long ago. The handlers divid

che year between aples, FL, and Duxbury.

" horcly afterwards, Jack and I

were off co nion ollege co ee

our twin granddaughter , Molly and Elizabeth Flanagan, receive their diplomas. Molly and Elizabeth are the children of our daughter, arol, and Tom and Esther Coyne Flanagan' on!

ther and Tom al attended che graduation. le was a big fumily group because a grand on, Mike Flanagan, who e parencs are Peter and Kacie Flanagan, al o graduated. le was a very happy oc ion."

The I of '49 end incer c ympathy co Millicent Flink Jick

on the lo of her husband, Leon, in May. He was a profe or ac Brandei U.

Please write. We wane co hear about you.

50 ormpomlr11r. Ruth Kaplan, 2 I lalcyon Rd., 'c:wton mer, MA 02 59, rlkaplan@rcn.com

REUNION NEWS: Allow me co introduce my el[ I am your one and future clas corre pondem, Ruth Kaplan. You will be hearing from me, and you will respond. Lee me begin by thanking my predeces­or, Christine Holt Kurtz-White

for her fine work in chi pace for the past five years.

ur 55th reunion panned four days in June. lassmat attending included Susan Little Adam on, Jean McClure Blanrung, Barbara Harvey Butler, Marilyn Raub Creedon, Alice Hess Crowell, Pri cilia Harris Dalrymple,

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Margaret MacDermid Davis, Geraldine Foote Dolliver, Lois Papa Dudley, Sylvia Snitkin Frumer, Barbara Biddle Gallagher, Diane Roberts Gib on, Joanne Borden Glancy, Marilyn Packard Ham, ancylee Hicks Henrich, Ruth Kaplan, Elaine Title Lowengard, Mary Bundy Mersereau, Gabrielle oswortby Morris, Dorothy Hyman RobertsCohen, Joann Cohan Robin, Marilyn Maliria SchlegeJ,

ancy Canova SchJegeJ, Brenda Ginsburg Silin,MarieWoodbridge Thompson, Ann Mitchell Throop, Dorothy Abrutyn Turn, Eleanor Kent Waggett-Hetcher, Dorothy Warren White and Alison Porritt Wilson.

Thi list, alphabetical by mar­ried nam , was provided by the alumni office. Please lee me know of any correccion .

pecial thanks co Dorothy Hyman RobertsCohen, whose gifts of red-and-white Echo scarv were much in evidence during the alumni parade on acurday morn­ing. Thur day and Friday of Reunion weekend were filled with a variety of activities, including walk­ing tours, le cures by faculty, panel di cu sion , che yke ociety luncheon and a lob ter feast on Friday night.

As alway , che parade on aturday led co Palmer Auditorium

for presencacion of awards co ouc­tanding alumni and the presenta­

tion of clas gift co the ollege. From the lass of '50, wich 89% parcicipacion, the Reunion gift total was 519,314. Featured peaker was Pres. orman Fain tein, who reported on the tace of che liege and found ic good -with of course room for improvement.

From Palmer we emerged into the bright unny ky of a not-neces­arily-typical cw London day and

headed for the picni on the ollege Green. We had a variety of

a civicies co choose from chat after­noon, including che ervice of

62 (l 0"'H Tl< l l I llllf(,f ,.1"l,A/1 f fAII 100�

Remembran e ac Harkn hapel. Thi ervice was an opporrunity for us co remember and celebrate the lives of deceased classmac , fa ulty and caff. ur own Joann Cohan Robin provided the musical inter­lude, chuberc's "Impromptu"

pus 90 #3. arurclay evening, we gathered

for our class dinner and meeting in the Blaustein Humanities ntcr (bener knnwn as the library in our day). ucgoing I President Alice Hess Crowell led us in a moment of ilence in rribuce of cl maces who

have died ince our last reunion: Virginia Andrew Fuller, Carol Dowd Redden, Marion Durgin Hanscom, Nancy Ford Olr, Emily Hallowell Blessis, Elaine Hansen Fraser, Mary Loui e OelJers Rubenstein, Mary Oldham McMeekin, Mary-Jane Redman Whittier, Marilyn Wunker Julnes and Mary Young Tucker.

lass officers elected co erve until our next reunion are President Christine Holt Kurtz-White, Reunion hair June Linsley, Vice Pr ident and ominating hair Mimi Woodbridge Thompson and ecrecary and la

orrespondent Ruth Kaplan. The po icion of class ueasurer, so ably filled for many year by Peg MacDermid Davis, no longer exi ts, as its function have been taken over by the alumni office.

Our featured peaker on arurday evening was Dr. Robert

Lee uider, who, as we all recall, began his career ac ac the same rime we began ours. He delighted us with cories about cho e early years, including ome tales of our favorite fa ulty members.

We hope co see him, and all of you, at our next Reunion, in 20 I 0.

Annual Fund! $34,192, 67%

51 Corrtspondmt: Bimbach, 1165 Park Ave.,

10128

aomi alit

cw York,

55TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

Pat Roth Squire had a hair-rai ing experien e lase May. While hiking in lraly, Pat was rushed co a ho pica! for major, emergency urgery. "Thi was a ho pica! where no one poke Engli h, no doctors, no nurs , no one." Fortunately, David' office located a woman who assi ted and interpreted, and Pac was di charged in eight days. By Aug., Pat and David were playing cenni in H.

Claire Goldschmidt Katz and Bob are greatly enjoying their Tu on winter/vacation home, hav­ing many Hartford friends chere. They dropped out of che Hartford

horale, which they helped found in '71. ( They'll cry co tart a chorus in Tu on.) The couple visited daughters in WA and then toured Eastern Europe and Israel, particu­larly loving Krakow in Poland with its architecture and music. They had a warm reunion with a cousin of Bob' , who built a home over­looking a pot mentioned in che Bible! Last fall, Bob had urgery but recovered nicely.

Rennie Aschaffenburg Christ­ensen and Robert, Harriet Bassett MacGregor and Bob, Pam Farnsworth French and Jack and Mona Gustafson Affiruto all pent a wonderful ew Year's weekend ar the beautiful seaside home of Joan Campbell Phillips and Doc in M . "We never ran out of conversation. Mona Aew in from M to JOlll us; che group has been pending v Year' together for many years."

Janet Young Witter say chat after a hip replacement, he' back on che golf cours . he and Bob have dinner once a year wich Carol Burnell Raney and Bill. Janet received a sad note about che lo of a clas mare, Maria Rinella Bo nak. Maria graduated from che Yale chool of ur ing and worked full time as a psychiatric nur e. After reriremenr, she became a first­class cenni player.

Bar ash Hanson enc a note on a greeting card that picrm her amazing Rancho Mirage,

home. Bar rai es money for Pathfinders, an organization rhac end underprivileged kid to a

mountain ranch during che um­mer. The kid have recreational experiences they've never had ( vimming, riding). Bar' husband Herb has been reaching for five years ar che Carlson chool (U. of Minn ta Busin chool), where he al o erves on the board. The tu­dents love him, and ome even II him during che ummer for advice.

Joan Andrew White and Henry moved to a retirement home in My tic, CT. le' ju t 20 minutes from their ummer place in R I.

ugar Sessions pratley, with daughter in cow, finally met up with her old, Engli h camp friend on a crip co England. ( If you follow chi column, you will remember chat chi i che friend who was the prococype for die heroine in ugar's novel, Trnnsntlflntic Trinngle. The friend now lives in a 93-room de. Perhap , anocher book?)

Dorie Cramer Maitland and Alex and ugar and Tred were about to board a cruise hip lase winter when che boat caught fire. The crui e was cancelled.

Sheila Albert Ro enzweig !iv with rerired doctor hu band Leonard on Long Island, do e co where he was born and where they lived when rhey were younger. They have two uccessful on : ech, a doctor in PA, and Andrew, a

lawyer in AZ. heila, in earlier years, worked in Len's practice and wid1 the ho pica! fund bur always was a fine golfer - being a member of AW A proves the point.

Pru Merritt Montrezza was in great pirits even after she cook a terrible fall. Pru topped teaching but would like to continue on a part-cime basis. he has a very active ocial life in her lively com­munity of Woodbury, . Pru enjoy her gardening club and gar­den how .

Jane Keltie ays chat Libby Griffin's hou e in FL was in che

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path of the terrible hurricanes lase year, "buc he - and her house -survived fairly well. Libby ac on her porch rhrough each corm, and held on!" Jane reports char Walter and ancy Clapp Miller crui ed in che edirerranean and conrinue ro enJ0Y winrers in r. Martin and autumn in anibel. " ancy, an asrute math major, ays he i final­ly learning ro use che compurer." Another mini- reunion rook place when Jane, Leda Treskunoff Hirsch, Nancy Bohman Rance and Bobby Thompson Stabile gor cogecher for a "gabfesr."

I cannor cell you how many classmates wrote me with the sad new of che death of Joey Dings Haeckel on 5/21 /05. he was much beloved; her group remained do e and upporcive chroughouc che year . he would ho t cl maces at the VA farm he and Jerry loved. Joey was active in her church, ang in the choir, was a docenr at local museum , and was busy with chool and Junior League. he was courageou ro che l:15t. The class sends sympathy ro Joey's family and friends.

52 Corrt1pondmu: Eleanor ouville w1·, 5902 Mt. Eagle Dr., Unir 804, Alcundria, VA 22303, plevy75213@aol.com and Patricia Ahearn Berger, 3 ordonia Tree l., Hilron I icJd, 29926, pat 1 buzz@aol.comc

Thi edition of the l 952 class notes is brought ro you with the a i -cance of Jo MacManus Woods and Jane Murchison Hamilton. Ocher cla smaces our there, you could really help Pat Ahearn Berger in gathering new by ending an e­mail ro the address presented at the head of chi column.

Arlene Hochman Cohen liv on Fifi:h Avenue in . Earlier chi year, he celebrated her 75th birthday in her apartment overlook­ing Central Park. he was able ro view the hri ro aces in the park from her apartment. he mentioned char her grandchildren are doing

parcicularly well and have been admitted ro Yale, Middlebury, ere.

Jane Hough Mcflligort and husband Ray live happily in Pocoma MD. Ray retired from the National

Geographic, and they decided to cay in their home of36 years in Poron,a They travel often, and recendy went on a crui e ro HI, Tahiti, ew Zealand and Ausualia. Jane has five granddaughrers and one grandson.

EJ Jarvis retired from her own real estate business and sold her house in ouchport, CT. In June, she moved ro Amesbury, MA, ro be near her family. EJ has een Mary Ann Rossi, Francine LaPointe Buchanan and Jeri Squier Page.

Julie Hovey Slimmon returned home ro Bloomfield, CT, in March after pending ome rime in Boca rande, FL. he aw Helen Fricke Mathieson and Mary eaman Clowney there. Helen i

building a new home in Boca rande bur found rime ro play golf

with Julie and Mary. Juli has five grandchildren. he ing in a group called "Better Half ores," who perform in nursing horn and ho -pita! . he also underwent a hip replacement, bur ir only got her down for a horr while. Julie also function as our class agent.

53 Corrt1pondmu: Joan Fluegel man Wexler, 16 rceplecrcc Lane, Wa)'land, MA O 1778, jfw@aol.com and ue Weinberg Mindi in, IO I West 90th t.,

hawncc Mi ion, K 66207, suc@mindlin.com

Jane Graham Pemberton and husband John were in England chis pring vi icing friend in che or wolds. (Do you all remember

Wordsworth?) They al o pent time in xford and Devon, where they enjoyed che Devon hire cream! After recovering from jet lag, they were in with family and in PA for a wedding. Whew!

Annellen Fine Guth had an amazing trip ro Africa, vi iring Vicroria Fall , Boe wana and Johannesburg. Annellen' family is

well and careered from Prin eron ro olumbu , H.

Betty Ann chneider Ottinger, in D , cook all 21 of her family co Hilron Head chis ummer and char he has tarred golfing.

Liz Gallogly Bacon and hus­band Jolm rook a seven-week immer­ion French program ac Middlebury

chi past summer and plan ro practice wich cheir Fren h daughter-in-law, grandchildren and guide while skiing in France next winrer.

Emily Howard Ryan and hus­band are happy they've relocated ro Tucson, even chough d1e summers are hoc. They cook their oldest daughter with chem ro Paris d1i summer ro visit old friends. (Thar' a grear way co beat the AZ d rr hear!)

Lydia Richards Boyer's on and family vi iced from cw Zealand, where he operac a veni­on farm. He was arrending hi

25th college reunion. Jane Muddle Funkhouser mer

her Can1bridge U.-based on and his family for a crip ro lcaly. They were in Rome before, during and after the pope' funeral. What an experience! After chac, they visired Pompeii, Herculaneum, the Amalfi coast and apri.

Emily Fonda had a fun-filled Ay fi hing crip in Canada and loved che elegant scenery.

Allie Bronson Hogan and hus­band were in cocland, Wales, Ireland and England lase fall, and cried co locare ocher Hogan , bur alas, none were in any phone books they peru ed. The Hogans are pending ix month in ME and

would love co ee any rouring class­mac . Contacc Flugy or ue for Allie' address. Allie is doing much painting and exhibited in an arc how during July and Aug. in ME.

Anne Dorsey Loth vi iced them chi past ummer.

Joan Fluegelman Wexler and Jerry cook a daughter and two granddaughter on a great Mexican crui e chi ummer.

uc of che blue, Sue Weinberg

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Mindlin recencly heard from her freshman "lirrle i cer," Mimi Dreier Berkowitz '55, who loved attending her 50th reunion chi past May. ue worked as a volunteer ar Jack icklau ' la r planned American golf rournament, which was in Kan as icy, and report chat ir was a really exciting and mobbed event even though the rain came and came and came!

We are all saddened by che deach of Dottie Bomer Fahland, who was such a wonderful classmate.

54, Corrt1po11d,11t: Lois Keating 1..camcd, IO Lawrence t., rccnlawn,

11740, learncd.l@lworldnet.atc.ner

Tho e of u who are till hale and hearty are doing ome traveling:

Cathy Pappas McNamara and Bill were in hicago in May with a rour spon ored by the Housron Museum of Fine Arts and had din­ner with Ann Christensen. Ann i recovering from her hip operation of a year ago, which has relieved much of her pain, bur he rill requires a cane and rehab therapy. chy arid Bill were in Ireland for 10 days in June and saw their son' family in CT. "Moving ro a nigh-rise has cer­tainly made life a loc easier for us."

Emilie Camp Stouffer mi ed our 50th reunion as her son, corr, was married (for the econd time) in the Virgin I lands char weekend.

he was away from her FL home chi ummer vi icing her i cer in

hicago, son Tom in and core in MD. When not rraveling, she' busy with choir and church activi­ties and volunteers in a local ele­mentary hool.

Barbara Guerin Colon and ecil pent the ummer in the

mounrain with rwo weeks in AK ro celebrate cheir 50th wedding anniversary. "Lircle did I know char a blind dace with a ubmariner would lead co so many happy years!"

orma Hamady Richards and Ed moved from rheir home of 44 year in MD co an aparcmenr in

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D . They recently vi iced their daughter, Andrea, and fumily in

. Ed celebrated hi 50th reunion ac the . of Iowa medical chool.

Cynthia Fenning Rerun and Jack cook a cwo-week crui e of che Balti , spending cwo of Russia' 'white nights' in c. Petersburg and arrending che Kirov Bal lee at I 0:40 p.m. in blazing unlighc. "We got alifetime upply of gilt and high liv­ing, and a sad eyeful of negle cedinfrasrrucrure left over from the

oviec ." The crui e ended incockholm, which rhey thoroughly

enjoyed. They arc now back in Fenwick, , and have been enjoy­ing vi its from grandchildren.

Pat McCabe O'ConndJ ailed our of ewporr, RJ, then on co Martha' Vineyard with her on and daughter and their fumilies (four grandchildren, ages 4 co 19).

ancy Maddi AvaUone and Gene celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a garden parry ar home in MD. They are planning a trip co i ily with their cwo on and fumilies as pare of the celebra­tion. ancy is running a fundrai er for rhe oldest hiscoric home in

nnapoli , rhe harle arroll House. arroll was the lase urviv­ing igner of the Declaration of Independence.

Ann Marcu e Raymond i sorting her phoro and memori from her past trip co Rwanda {for gorilla cracking), ew uinea, Borneo (for cuba diving),

ambodia, Lao , Vietnam and hina. The cwo of us had a nice day

near my home and enjoyed lunch on enterporc Harbor.

I (Loie Keating Learned) enjoyed my trip co England in

pril. After 33 radiation treat­ments, ic was a ni e reward. ur 18-member walking group, cheWinter Wheezers, pent a week in

orcingham area trekking, among ocher places, in herwood For c with another week near Wind or, traipsing along the Thame . In June, I visited my sister and her

daughter in anta Fe for her 78th birthday. As you can surmi e, I'm quite fir and enjoying my new, very white, curly hair!

adly, our friend, Peggy Detar DeBard i not doing well. In Feb., he uffered a cerebral hemorrhage,

po ibly overdoing ic in the exercise room of che retirement fa iliry he and hu band ruarr {age 90) had m ved co lase full. he' ouc of the coma, ecming co comprehend ome, but i in a wheelchair and talks very licde. ariou therapies are helping her cope. Jan Adams, her good friend, has vi iced her and i keeping me po ced. Jan i fine and enjoyed the ummer with her niece's family on the ape.

Keep the e-mail coming!

55 Corrnpo11dm11: Joan Barkon mell, 12 rccnwood Lane,� 1pon,

06880, jantell op1online.ne1 and Mimi Dreier Berkowicz, 8 Ridge Farms Road, orwalk. CT 06850, mimib20@opconline.net

REUNION NEWS: ur 50th reunion was a mashing uccess. Gail Andersen Myers (from ) wrote, "What a marvelou 50th ir was. Ir was everything I hoped for." Bitsie Root {al o from ) aid, "What a wonderful reunion ic was. The planning and work chat went inco it was remarkable, wid1 whac I con idered co be a spectacular resulc. If anyone didn't have a good time ir certainly wasn't the fuulr of tho e of you who pur o mu h into ic."

The reunion comminee did a pecracular job. We (Mimi and Joan)

know because we were on ir. Ir was a lor of work, but we had a great time.

mmirree members included our indomitable and rirel Reunion

hairs Jane Doman mith and Jesse Rincicotti Anderson. Jane' daughter, Kathryn mith '84, and Jane' husband, Wee, did an excel­lent job pucting our the reunion Koine. ngrarulation co Jane, who will serve as class president for the n r five years. ther committee members included Reunion lass

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Agent hair Muffy WiWam on Barhydt and her co-chairs, Mimi Dreier Berkowin and Julie Evans Doering, who did an outstanding job. ur cl received the B Rice '31 Award, presented co the reunion cla char achi ves the high r Annual Fw1d participation, and the Ann rocker Wheeler '3 Award, presented co the reunion class char achieves the greatest percentage increase in che number of Annual Fund donors over the previous year!

Dottie Rugg Fitch al o described Reunion as terrific. "The piric of the weekend was remarkable

and memorable!" Dorrie was in cop form, leading us through some of our college song . How many of us rem mbered cl1ar we had a class song?

In a well- rocked ho picalicy room, we all gor rogecher co renew connection , and catch up with classmar . The calf ar was gra­cious and a commodacing ar all cim , especially when our bar up­ply ran low!

The campus looked beautiful, and the weather was near perfc r. Reunion began on Thursday nighr, June 2, with a dinner ho red by President orman Fain c in. ur honored guest were Dr. Robert crider (who could forger his creative

writing class?) and Dr. Richard oodwin {who could forget hi biol­

ogy and borany lab and leccur ?). n Friday morning, our class

ho red a presentation by Berry Fu ell, who was an adjunct in the Engli h department during the 1950 . in e then he has be ome a writer on food and cooking. Her recent memoir, "My Kirchen Wars," has a chapter on rea hing ar and living in cw London. le is a great read, and heds much light on the anti of our esteemed fu ulry, Mr. and Mrs. myser, M . Bethurum and M . Tuve. The book was dram­atized off-Broadway in '04 by ch actress Dorothy Lyman, accompa­nied by inger Melissa weeney. Berry brought chem with her co re reare rhe performance. Thi

dynami trio wowed the audien e. The class al o enjoyed a cham­

pagne reception in a Fanning Hall classroom, cheduled for renovation as our class gift co the college. The class dinner in rozier-William. was attended by some 65 classmar and another 25 guests. The h.igh­lighc of the dinner was rhe hilarious Molly/Dolly act performed by Doc Palmer toweU, with fuke boob ,

armen Miranda-like costume, wigs and ocher undry accessori . he was a companied by her friend

from Mexico {where Doe now liv everal month a year), where they

have a regular Thur day night gig ar a local restaurant. D brought the house down, or rather co its feer, cheering, applauding and camping. Doe, thank you from all of us.

Jessie Rincicotti Ander on ha definitely become our clas tree expert. he provided the bon i centerpie es at our class dinner, and, once again, brought our her rree cosrume co wear in che parade of classes on acurday morning.

unday brunch, ho red by Julie Evans Doering at her home in

oank, has become a '55 tradition. Ir was a perfect ending to chi on e­in-a-lifetime evenr.

Here i ome new from class­mates who did nor make 1t to Reunion.

Marilyn { kip) Smith oil writ from Pirc burgh, PA: ''I'm happy to report char my husband Walcer' hip replacemenc urgery in April was uc e ful. We've ju t returned from Italy, where he was able co give rwo le rures {mache­mati ) at universities in Reggio

labria and M ina ( i ily)." Five children and 14 grandchil­

dren ( 11 boy , three girl ) have made our lives full, write Mary Vo Bishop. he has pent 30 year on the Lewi & lark board and now is a life trustee. Mary moved from a large place co a mall hou e, in Portland, R. "The rime was right," he ay . uHope co make che 55ch!" Mary sends three cheers

10 che class and regrets thac the rim­ing was noc right for her co make our 50th reunion.

norher clas mace living in Porrland, R, Joyce Adams Gamblin moved chere from Dayton, H, after her retirement in '95 from che practice of law. Her h115band died in '89. he has cwo daughter in Portland, plus cwo gn:ac-grandchildren. A third daugh­cer lives in Ventura, , and che fourth is in Denton, TX. " orry I didn't make it co Reunion, but I had ju c made a crip Ease and ouldn'c return." he gees co

about 3-4 times a year. Barbara chute Howell-Shafer

and her hu band, John, enjoy a very a cive life in apa Valley, , cen­tered around John's family wine business, hafer V ineyards. "We

·m co be craveling con randy, vis­iung market around the world!

ur recent trip cook us co Pari ndon and Berlin and unforru­

naccly prevented me from arcending our 50th. I was orry co mi it, but fed lu ky that our travel in the U. afford me opportunities co connect with cl mar off and on." When not traveling, they keep busy upporting ome of their favorite

charici , enjoying family ( 16 grand-children!) and friends, and trying co

keep fie. They also enjoy reading and parri ipacing in a rich cultural life in the area.

Editor's note: Therr was so much news mbmined for this isme that we didn't hnve room ro print ir all. Please srr the �Vt111er isme for mo" news from your class.

Annual Fund: 66,846, 75%

56 Cormpo11dems: Edith Fay Mroz, 129 Wesrville Rd., Wroming, DE

1993 , wemroz@ nip.ne, and Jan Ahlborn Roberts, I� . Box 221, Eas1 Orleans, IA 02643, jar.jrr@verizon.com

50TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

Think Reunion '06. Make plans co call a few cl, mac , ralk over what you would like co do on char week-

end, even plan co travel together. I Pr ident Marge Lewin

Ro is counting the days until our 50th. "I really can't believe rhac we are at rhac milestone - I am look­ing forward co I 00 percent partici­pation and a happy, beautiful week­end for all! Please join us!" Marge i cill advi ing famili on ummer

program , playing tenni and vol­unteering ar rhe Mecropolican Museum, where rhe '56ers annual holiday lunch has been held for sev­eral year . Her econd grandson was born in ov. 'O .

Camie Tyson Hall and Tome welcomed their fir c grandchild,

harlorce, born in July '04! The Halls till pend winter in tuarr, FL, where rhey omecime ee Barbie Givan Missimer and her hu band for golf and dinner. he and Barbie plan ro come ro Reunion. "Too cary - ir' been that long!"

Elise Hofheimer Wright wel­comed her econd grandson. he continues as a museum cru ree.

Bonye Fisher orton rravel readily despite a hip replacement

in Feb. '05. Before che urgery, he visited her daughter in Mongolia, where her daughter working wich the Peace orp . (Her daughter has ince moved co ierra Leone co

work with Unite for ighr.) Though Bonye has given up ho pice visiting after 16 years, he arrends exerci e and healing lasses and volunteer at her church thrift hop.

Mary Ann Hinsch Meanwell

wrires, "I am rill enjoying golf, cen­ni and kiing as long as che body holds up. The Women' Arc allery ac che incinnari YW rill keep me busy, and we continue ro receive good review and upporc." Mary Ann loves being a volunteer mentor co third- and fourth-grade girl in problem icuarion . As none of her hildren live nearby, he has "fun

pla es ro go for visits." Thi pring, ancy tewart

Roberts and her husband vi ired on Mark and family in Pu no

Rico, where he has lived for three years as an FBI agent. They enjoyed Mark' 18-monrh-old on, McKenna, rheir young r grand­child. The Roberts' oldesr grandson is a ophomore ar olgace. They al o vi iced their olde r son in Vienna, VA. All their children vi ir­ed them for a week chi summer.

B id travel co third world countries, Bill and Linda Cooper Roemer volunteer as prayer inter­ce or in rheir church and by bringing communion co hue-in . "We are extremely graceful for our good health. We have both decided char I hall die first, because I don't wane co balance the checkbook!" Linda ha volunteered co make phone calls for Reunion.

ancy utenneister Heubach golfs and engag in lawn bowling when nor working part time as an editor. h is happy to have her granddaughters, ages 4 and 3, nearby.

harles and Helen ormani Tichenor hare eighr grandchil­dren, of which four are Helen's. The lichenors are till with ardner­Webb . " harles teaches full cime in the chool of Bu in , and I increase rh number of rudent abroad each year." They keep mov­ing with tennis and golf, weight training and daily and weekly activ­ities, "as long as the old bon hold up!" They travel ro Europe and Hilton Head and co bridge tourna­ments and to Wimbledon.

Barbara Givan Missimer vol­unteer with Ho pice and rhe

hicago Foundation for Education and is a rive with her garden club and church guild. he also pla a lor of golf. Th Mi imiers have I 0 grandchildren, four in IL, cwo in

nada ( anadian futher) and four in Houscon. Their 13-year-old twin granddaughters in Houscon play soc­cer in national tournaments. Barbie i looking forward co Reunion!

harli and Ann Lewis Cooper have pub Ii hed their I Och book, Imo rhe unlit ,plendor ( reenwi h Workshop, 2005), a beautiful arc

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book or the work of William Phillip . Ame/in /mi the Only One i Annie' anthology of 40 women of aviation. " ur family conrinues co delight - 16 grandchildren and counting, and our granddaughter ju r joined the U. . rmy Band. We count our bl ings."

In 'O I , Jeanne orton Doremus retired from her job in education, and he and her hus­band have been traveling ever ince, "mostly vi icing our ix children, their pouses and 12 grandchil­dren." They al o care for their old furmhou e and ground . "We had a wonderful time arcending Bure' 50th college reunion and look for­ward co our 50th ar next June."

Bet Eve Messmer and hu band Jack celebrated their 50th wedding anniver ary in June. "We were mar­ried 6/ I 6/55 in the asc uard Academy chapel. Jack' besr man and u her were academy class­mac , my maid of honor and all bur one of my bridesmaids were

cl maces!" Congratulacion , Bee and Jack!

5 7 Cormpo11de111: Elaine Diamond Berman, 72 1an1on Lane, Jlawcatuck,

06379, rberman@sn r.ncr

ally Luchar McCarthy e-mailed us after arrending hu band Justin' 50th reunion at Webb Institute in Long I land:

"We ee ancy Keith Lefevre and ed every ummer, as they have a hou e in Rehoboth and we have one in Lewes, DE, next door ro the Lewes- ape May Ferry. We espe ially enjoy pending rime chere each ummer with granddaughters

pril, 6, and Julia, 8, who live 10 minutes from us in Bethesda wich our daughter, Elizabeth, and on­in-law, Ken. ur older daughter, Kate, a banker, and our on, Brian, an interior d igner, live in

ally ontinues, "I worked for many year developing volunreer­based program for older people in northwest D in what was then a

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mall, neighborhood ial ervice agency and i now a major part of the D ervice sy rem co the elder­ly. I then worked for AARP and ochers bur am now basically retired. Volunteer work ar present in ludes being a reader for Recording for the Blind and Dy lexic.

"Justin and 1 have done a lot of traveling over the years, developing quire an appetite for exoti pla es while living in Japan in the lace '80 . We've managed ro vi it every continent and have had ome mem­orable and hair-rai ing experiences! Lase year we were in Romania, Bulgaria, roatia and lovenia, and the year before we vi ired ew Zealand and the outh Pa ific."

Elaine Manasevit Friedman

and Bob have a new grandson, William Michael, born 2/2/05 co their on, Jamie, and daughrer-in­law Ali on. Thar make three grandchildren for the Friedman -one for each of their children. Elaine and Bob sold their house in Fairfield in the spring and moved inco a condo in cratford, . Their travel during the past year includ­ed a trip co lxrapa, Mexico, for a grandniece' wedding.

ue Krim Greene i on the mov . he traveled co ouch Africa and amibia last full, pent the winter in and then, after skiing eason, went co Pari and Turkey for

a week with a friend. ue com easr co vi it her children and grandchil­dr n but pend more and more of her rime each year in , which he h come ro love in every ea-on. he had a kayak made for her in the pring and did a lot of kayak­ing in th summer.

Joan Schwartz Buehler keep busy wirh duplicare bridge and theacer. he enjoy taking part in many of the culrural rich in

58 Cormpo11dm1: Judilh Ank.arstran rson, 17 Id Harbor Rd., W, tporr, MA 02790

59 Cormpo11dmu: rolyn Keefe akes, 3333 Warrensville ncer Rd.,

Apt. 12, haker Heights. H 122, nanaoak @aol.com and Pa1ricia Turley

ighswander, 3700 Albemarle 1., W, Washing1on, 20016, nighs@aol.com

ur dassmare are planning for our 50rh reunion already! Living in

ew Zealand mean Anne Earnshaw Roche and John have ro plan their rar ide visits early, and o rhey are working on ir now.

Anne's children are all living inew Zealand, and he ee them

ofren. on David and hi wife, Kim, have a daughrer and a on, and they compered in the Coasr-ro-

asr Endurance hallenge, whi h include running, biking and kayaking. Anne' daughter, Elizaberh, and on-in-law, Dave, have one on. Daughter Martha and husband Bruce keep busy with rheir children, ag 2 and . Anne and John are in grear hape after an I I -day hiking trip around the lower half of outh I land.

Peggy Brown Gunn , Olga Lehovich, Liz Pughe King, Lucy Allen Separk and Gail Glidden Goodell gor rogether in Bo ron recently. lga has her driver' licen and is having fun exploring H.

Gail Glidden Goodell had an eventful year in '04, culminating in her daughter's wedding in Tuscany ar an estate that produces wine and olive oil. Thirry-five people came and rayed in restored aparrments that once were farm buildings. The wedding cook place on the lawn of the estate, and the reception was in the castle of the owners. ail th n pent a week raking day trip co ienna, Pienza, Arezzo and

Florence. he vam in the Mediterranean and then joined her on and his family in Rome. Prior co the wedding, ail penr rime in Pari with friends. ail h retired.

Mimsy Matthews Munro has rwo grandson and ix granddaugh­rer who keep her happily busy. After our reunion, Mimsy rook a

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trip co London and Pari where he had lunch with Elliott Adams Chatelin and her husband.

Judy Petrequin Rice and Don gathered their family for the firsr time in a while at amp Michigania in Ml. Daughter Debbie liv our W. r with her rwo children, a boy and a girl. on Jim and hi wife, Michel, live in the

leveland area with a daughter and twin ons. on Bailey and wife Meghan have a year-old on.

Jean Alexander Gilcrest retired from nur ing, sold her home in I and moved co Davidson, , co be lo er co her daughter and family.

John and Marcia Fortin Sherman have adapted beautifully co retirement in their new home in

lem on, . John i busy building homes for Habitat for Humaniry. They are involved with their church and attend achleti event and music and rhearer producrion . Marcia volunteers at a nur ing home and belong to a group thar provid educational opporruniries for deserving women. They make frequent rrip ro MI co ee their on and daughter and families. They traveled co ermany lasr year with a retired erman proh or, who er up the trip. Thi year they headed for pain and Portugal, where Marcia rode a camel (in honor of our mascot, of cour e)! They rravel co Akron co see friends, and I, Carolyn Keefe Oakes, cry co gee cogether with her in leveland.

We a rually had lunch on my fir r day of retirement! I, Carolyn, completed almosr 15 year as head of volunteers at rwo nursing homes, which finally moved into one build­ing. What a job we had moving 120 people and helping them gee ercled while trying co figure our new sy -rem and cope with erratic lights and hear. After transition, I decided co retire. I an1 now volunteering with 3- and 4-year-old in a daycare enter do e co my home. I love chi

new challenge! I till volunteer at the ho pica( (45 year ), help at

church, erve on a volunteer admin­isrracor board and am a volunteer usher at our thearer complex in

leveland. I have all my children in the area and five grandchildren.

Ann eidel Craig's family has expanded ro 21. Matthew and Linda and the newesr grandson live in Wl. Jeff and Michele and their rwo children live in TX. Tripp and Kacie and their three children live nearby in PA. corr and Janie and their four children and their daugh­ter, Elizabeth, and her daughter all live nearby. Lasr year, cl1ey had a dream trip co hina where they vi -ired Beijing, Xian and hongqing. They aw hanghai with a three­day crui e on rhe Yangtze River through the Three orges and saw parr of the rear Wall and the gar­den ciry ofYichang.

Torrey Gan1age Fenton and David traveled co Au tralia and v Zealand. In pr. '03 they pent three weeks vi iring Alexandra Da ta '03 and her parents in Brazil. They wenr on a trip around the country with the family as tran -lacors, and they got co see ir as a native would. " ther rrip pale after that," Torrey wrices. They visited David's family in England and mer with Edie Berkowitz Hargreaves. They penr part of the bad winrer in Tampa, raying close co their son,

hri Fenton '85. In the spring and ummer their home in CT keep

them busy with woods and fields and areas co weed! Torrey volunteers at Lawrence & Memorial Ho piral rwo day a week and sees her daugh­ter, Wendy Fenton Mitchell '87, who is married and liv in orwich.

60 Cormpo11dmt: Jean happcll, 0 � aher Ave., om lk, 06851,

ana 5 I 3@aol.com

REUNION NEWS: A mall group of us attended our 45th reunion d1e first weekend in June. me of the arrendees were Pat Wertheim Abrams, Judith Ammerman, Judy Van Law Blakey, Joan Wertheim

Carris, Jean Chappell, Gary

Griffiths, Bonnie Davis Hall, Joan Hemenway, Carol Reponen Hilley, Carolyn McGonigle HoUeran, Liz H McAfoose, Jill Reale Mervin, Barbara Eaton eilson, Millie Price ygren, Marianna Hoadley

m, Frances Gillmore Pratt, ancy Bald Ripley, Tommie

Saunders, Anne Sweazey and Betsy an Young.

There wer four intrepid hus­bands in attendance: Ray McAfoo , Di k Abram , Bud Blakey and H,my Pratt (who many con ider to Ix a member of our class).

Linda Stras enmeyer tcin and Bayla Solomon Wei bart scopped by for the pi nic lun h on acurday.

Due ro che genero ity of ome of our classmac , our Annual Fund gift co the college chi year coraled more chan 60,000. le i important char as many as po ible donate ro che annual fund o char our per­centage increases.

I, Jean Chappell, will b .muming the job of class correspon­dent, so send whac news you have ro me ac the addresses above. I will track down rho e who are online. Someone ar che reunion said char he wasn't doing anything "interesting." le doesn't matter how boring you chink your lifi i , your classmac wane co know how you pass the time.

Many of our classmates filled out card wich information ac che Saturday dinner, o I will end on char news for the next i ue of che college magazine.

Love ro all of you and please send me anything at all! - Jeanie

happell Annual Fund: $140,026, 57%

1 Cormpo11dems: Brent RandolphReyburn, 18 Cedar Hills Dr., Wyoming, RI 02898. embrcnc@aol.com and ancy Co�ier Whi1comb, 19 1arbuck Rd.,

anru kc,, MA 02554

45TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

62 ormpo11de111: Ka)• 1cwar1 cill,P.O. Box 1126. Layton. UT 8 0 I

ngratulacion co Bonnie Ro Fine, whose daughter aralie Fine '9 I was married on 4/9/05 co Mark Margolis at the Americas Society in

The black-tie wedding brought together several of arali ' cl maces, as well as her mom' ; Dara Zeiber Perfit and Jo Levitt VanderKloot attended the ceremony.

63 Cormpo11dmrs: ancy Holbrook Ayers, 907 Countrysid 1 .. McLean, VA, 2210 I, nharers@s1arpower.ne1 and Lonnie Jones horcr, 9330 Id Burke Lake Rd., Burke, VA 2201 , lonnie­schorcr@aol.com

Quinta Dunn con writes, "Barrie and I have finally moved ro Waterloo, lllinoi . Ir rook a year ro paint and II che big hou e in r. Loui . I didn't chink it would hap­pen, bur we are loving the mailer house in ch new community. Well, not uch a new community. Barrie has had hi office here for IO years."

64- Cormpo11dmr. andra Banni tcr Dolan, I nbcrra t., Mystic, CT 06355, bbdol@conncoll.edu

65 Cormpomkm: Karin Kunnlcroldman, 65 Fifth 1., Brooklyn, Y

11215, kkunsder@hotmail.com

Annual Fund: $88,763, 49%

66 Cormpo11dmu: Polly LucasPierce, 30 Pierce Rd., Deering. H 03244. piercek@conkn 1.com and Bct5cy taplcs Harding, P.O. Box 702, Ja kson. H 03846, Be1scyH @aol.com

40TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

Calling all classmates! June 2-4, we celebrate our 40th reunion! Make plans now to come. Planning is underway, and your idea and involvement are welcome. Jusr con­racr our reunion chairs, Liz Leach Welch, e.wel h7@verizon.net or Kay Landen, kaylanden@mind-

pring.com. Karen Churila Safe has been

living in c. Loui for many year . After college, he went into che Peace orp , where he met and married arl afe. After arl received hi graduate degree from Yale, they moved ro r. Loui where he caught in che chool of Architecture ar Wa hingcon U. They have rwo children: a daugh­rer, who i a graphic designer, and a on, who i an elemenrary s hool reacher. Karen i now divor ed. he worked on the campaign of

Harrier Woods former lieutenant governor of M . he worked for 13 year wich a nonprofit group

A I char offers educacional pro­gram for people over 50. he was down ized lase year and i now working as a church admini rraror.

Natalie Cooper Buchheim has a new grandson, Riley John, che first child of her youngesr on, Peter, and hi wife, Jennifer. he i director of merchandizing ar

abrillo Marine Aquarium in an Pedro, . he gees ro work right on the beach and lov it! acalie also loves co garden, travel and play wich her grandchildren. he keep in touch with her roommate, Martha Blanchard Twigg.

Eleanor (Bunny) Bonham Witter writes, "Ray and I have been retired five year and both are involved with volunteer work, gar­dening, qui Icing, a bit of travel and grandkid . ur ons both have their docrorares in geology. Rob, 38, and hi wife, Jen, live in rhe Bay Area and have two daughters, Tatum, 3, and Zoe, I. Jeff, 36, and his wife, Amanda, moved co

ambridge, England, in June! We've lived in the Pacific orrhwesc for 35 years and welcome vi irors ro Vancouver, WA."

ontinuing a I 0-year rradicion of gathering rogecher every rwo ro three year , KB friends Aew in from point aero rhe country and

nada in June for a ew ngland retreat by the ea at the home of Liz

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Leach Welch in Mar hfield Hill , MA. Tho e arrending included Joan Bucciarelli Yim, Lorna Wagner Strotz, Sue Abbe Yates, Alice Daghljan Kanayan, Mary Jane Cotton Low, Joan Lockhart Gardner, Cynthia Fuller Davis, Kathie Urion Krashin ky, Pan Dale, Lynn Kastner anAndres, Lynn Goodman Zoll, Martha Blanchard Twigg, Polly Lucas Pierce and Paula Schwartz Hagar. A highlight was a picnic ho ced by Diana (Pokey) Davis Komet ac her home in hassec.

Lary rujth's poem, "Lamia," has been nominated for rhe Rhysling Award in the horc poem category. Rhy ling Awards are given annually by che cience Fiction Poetry o iation ( FPA) co the besc science fiction, fantasy or hor­ror poem . The poem are pub­Ii hed in an anthology chat i nt co

FPA member for vocing. The anchology i al o available for sale ro nonmembers. For more informa­tion, vi it che FPA Web sire: hrrp://www. fpoerry.com.

Carol Chaykio writ , "I have been so busy at work char I have mi ed mo t of the news and mail chis year. I'm coordinating the functional requirements for rhe 'Hybrid Marker' char will enhance and facilicace ele rronic trading on the Aoor of che E. This is very challenging - che larg r project char I've seen since joining 1A (che E's aucomarion ub idiary) I 6 year ago. cherwi e, 1 hav nothing pecial ro hare." ol vi -iced friends on Cape Cod in July.

ELien Kagan writ , " ince ' 95, 1 have been rhe producer/ho r of 'Your Healch are: hoice or

hance?,' a public ace TV cries that rea hes MA residents how ro navigate the health sy cem. Ir is al o aired in Portland, ME, and it 16 surrounding communici . You can now Ii ren ro ic on rhe Internet ar www.rvyourhealchcare.org or download the how onto your MP3. The how char is up there

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now i with Or. John Abram on of Harvard Medical chool, who calks about hi book, Overdosed America.

Plan for the how are ro make ir commercial and bring ir inro main-cream America. Anyone inreresred

in being involved hould e-mail me ar e_kagan@yahoo.com."

Former President Claire Gaudfani is reaching ar Heyman mer for Philanthropy. In Aug., he received the Henry A. Rosso Medal for lifetime achievement in ethical fundrai ing from Indiana U.' enrer on Philanthropy. Husband David has retired from Pfizer and also is reaching ac and consulcing on health issu n

raham rea h history ac Princecon. Hi wife, hri rina, i doing a upreme Coun clerkship with Judge

Breyer. Oaughr r Maria is ac Yale Law and will clerk on the uch African

upreme urr after graduation. We had o much new , we

could nor prim ic all in one i ue. If you submirred a clas norc ro your class corresp ndents and don't ee ic here, ic will be in the nexr i ue.

67 Cormpo11dm1: Andrea Hricko, 2506 2 lsr 1., anra Monica, 90405, ahricko@usc.edu

68 ormpo11dr111: Phyllis Ben on Beighley, 6 Id Mill urr. lumbia.

29-06. bcighlep@bdlsouth.ne1

69 Cormpo11d,111: Judi Bamberg Mariggio, I 070 ugar and Blvd. 11384, Riviern Beach, FL 3340 , jgmariggio @bcllsou1h.ne1

Ruth Amdur Tanenhaus' daugh­cer, Alli on, graduated from Harvard in June; n Jeffrey reaches Engli h in Japan. Husband Edward has be n in-house coun el to real e rare d velop r Larry ilver rein ince live weeks prior co epc. 11.

"We're working on our hou e and garden and planning a crip ro I rad in che full.''

Ann Barber lov life rh e

day , doing ome con ulcing in marketing, public relarion and ice development and lots of volunreer board work. he manag co ride a few times a week. After I I year , he and Bill decided ro tie the knot

chi ummer. he encourag all ro ace AJice Wellington' Web ire: www.nurmeadow.com/alicewelling conphorography.

Bob and Beth Brereton mith celebrated • their 35th wedding anniversary on Labor Day weekend by attending che wedding of daugh­cer Molly in the Adirondack Mountain ro a fellow environmen­cal cience/Ph.O. rudent from U Berkeley.

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn rill directs the acional enrer for

hildren and Families, a research policy cencer ac lumbia U. Her family pend the summer on an i land off the coasc of ME, "a won-derful change of pace from 1"

In March, harley and Wendy Burns Conquest visiced son Will in Bema, negal, Wi t Africa, where he i a Peace rps volunteer crying ro introduce droughr resistant, usrain­able agricultural rechniqu and seed. "le was 120 degrees the nighc one of WJ.I' 'mothers' gave me a boubou, a traditional 3-piece garment."

Claire Eldridge made her annual spring pilgrimage, visiting with Karolyn Kanavas Rohr our-ide D and in with Vera ldel

Gierke, Dianne anborn '68 and uzie anborn O' hesky '68. "Kar

works diligenrly on recovering ro the fullest extent po ible from a hor eback riding accident several years ago, concinuing with physical rherapy and wacer resi ranee exer-i ; he o casionally ees an e

Bowen '70." Vera' younger daugh­ter, Emily, i a freshman ar Bab on.

laire' daughrer, Lyndsey, i relo­cating from Y ro eartle ro pur­ue her dance career. laire also pent pare of Aug. cycling abour the halk Down and tswolds of ngland and visiting friends/family

in London.

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Jane Hooper Percy's hyp­notherapy pra rice i expanding. "I've conceived a weighr lo pro­gram called 'Lighten Up! Win ar Lo ing' which utilizes 'hypnocoa h­ing' ro overcome re isrance ro healthy earing and exer i e. The program i being offered ar Riverlighr Wellness enter in Mystic and ar area ho piral and lini . I have a new book in the

works, and chi past year broughr opporruniries co record hypno i

D . Ir i fun co be learning new kill ! Had a great vi ir lase winter

with Cathy Robert." Bill and Ruth Kunstadt Culp

moved from J ro , near reenville due to Bill' job tran fer.

"The big new of the year, b ides che move, was the marriage of our daughter, Kri tin, in May, attend d by Tom and Marilyn Weast Rorick and Mark and Liz Tobin Mueller, with Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt

officiating." Kristin is • n account repre entarive for Thom on

iencilic, and daughter, Danielle, i an account represencarive for Pfizer.

Ellen Lougee immons wrote in May from airobi, where they'd been on afari in the Masai Mara, char he and Marr attended a hi -corical eminar in ME celebrating th 400th anniver ary of G orge Waymouth' voyage in 1605. "We were there with ancy Payne Alexander and Laurie Cameron Larkin's hu band, Richard, the new director of development at the Fam worth Museum in Rockland.

ur class was well repr enred!" ancy Oskow-Schoenbrod

enjoys her job with the scare of , working in special education quali­ty as uran e. he has been married for 30 years co corr, who i reno­vating their circa 1830 farmhou e (a 17-year project so far). While her in-law continue co maincain their independence, ancy has been fa ed with choo ing an AJzheimer care residential program for her mother. Their older son i pur uing a career in filmmaking. Their

younger on, recovered from Lyme di ease, i a college ophomore. "My job, my hu band and our chil­dren are keeping me young - and my children have promi ed co rake are of u if we are forrunace

enough to get to an age where we cannot do it alone."

In June, Brian and Kris tahlschmidt Lambert enjoyed a

glorious vacation in Tu cany, a week in a hillcop villa and three day in Florence. "There were two high point , other than seeing 'David,' pending a whole day wirh our

hardworking class corre pondeni and her hu band, iovanni, and an afternoon in Fiesole with ancy Cuff Ricceri, who ha been living in Italy for 30 years. Lots of cories and laugh were hared!"

7 0 Cormpo11dm1: Myrna Chandl r oldsrein, 5 Woods End Rd., Lincoln.

i\1A 01 73.mgoldst@massmcd.org

Annual Fund! 61,222, 52%

71 Cormpo11dm1: harloue Parker Vincent, 347 Gain borough Drive, Fairfax, A 22032, charlone_vincenr@alum.conncoll.edu

35TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

72 Cormpondmr: ally lacL1ughlin livier, 0 uth Main t., Geneva, Y I 4 56,

solivier@roch ter.rr.com

The following is a letter to the class from new correspondent ally ( am) Macl..aughlin Olivier:

I often wonder why cher i so lirde in the magazine class notes e rion from us. I wonder why we don't write, update or brag.

I wonder if it i due co chc Vietnam War pror r experience. By the end of our freshman year it was all che new ; although I only rememb r everyone watching "Jeopardy" religiou ly, nor rhc new . In chc pring of '70, our ophomore year, four college ru­

dents died and nine were wounded

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,u Kenr rare. nnecricur parrici­p.ued in the moratorium by hur-11ng down; we did nor have exam . We ar on rhe lawn or w nr ro

olumbu irde in D to march. (I sac on the lawn. I mi ed thar march; I wenr ro the Million Mom March 30 years larer. Mo r every­one there had been co rhe march in rhe '?Os. Ir was like a reunion.)

I wonder if ic i because we were o committed then as hippies orpretend hippies. (I was a pretendhippie. I needed my hairbru h and coochbru h on a regular basi . I di -covered ome of my little idiosyn-r.isies back then. After all, I mar­

ried a naval officer. How much of a hippie could I have been?) Bue per­hap rhar i why "clas nores" just <lon'r eem appropriate or "real" enough for us. I mean, you write co your college co find omeone or lee everyone lmow thar you have pro -pcred or ar pro pering now after not pro pering for awhile. ome ofm give money co onnecricuc.\ome of us have given yearly incegraduation. We muse feel we werepare of omething, or maybe that we owe something.

I wonder if we've plinrered as a clas . Was my experience more common than I had ever thought? Did ocher fre hman roommates and ophomore uicemaces Fail to bmd after graduation? In my group, \Orne spenr their junior year away and came ba k differenc; ome did nor come ba k at all. I stayed and decided co double up my courses and graduate early. o, I actually did nor go to graduation - this, afrer running for freshman clas president three and a half years before. h, we send holiday cards and have even vi ired one or anoth­er once or twice. nee or rwice in 30 years! Are w the only five or ix thi happened to? Did everyone el e become fast friend , writing and

Hing and e-mailing and vi iring, never thinking co check cl nor ?

Thi wincer a nice young man from che college came to up race

and vi ired us up here in the frozen northland. Ir was good co know we had not been forgorcen. I hear th ME alumni arc alive and well and ki king burr in rhe keeping-up­wich-each-orher-deparcmenr. He said I hould wrice anyway. How do you rare co update 30 years?

You can't. All I can say i I con­tinue co re: emble the building marerial of my life inco new cruc­rures all che time, edifices co weach­er the current condition , creation to proce r my soul, wings ro Ay.

Whac are the rest of you doing?

73 orrtrpo11dm1s: Trinke11 lark, 238 Pr.m rncr Road, w·ercn, MA 0 I 05 , c j lark amhcr 1.cdu and Mary Ann ill ircdy. P. . Box 207. Wy ombe. PA 18980. nmirccly@ ircdy.com

A big chank you to Trinken Clark, who has agreed to help our wirh

la ore . And chank you co Mary Ann ill ircely, who will be raying on, and ancy Jensen

Devin, who has repped down afrer 16 year!

Trinkerr and Mary Ann desper­ately need your nC\ ! They are try­ing to updare their database of e­mail addr for the cl , so please end chem an e-mail (addres e

above) wirh your lacesc new .

7 4 Cormpo11dm1: heryl Freedman,9 0 idnc:y Marcus Blvd., E, Ape. 11 04, Aclanta, A 032 . cfrccdman @'rylcrco. om

7 5 ormpo11dmts: Miriam Jo phson Whi1ehou , P. . Box 7068,

ape Porpo ise, ME 0 0 14, casablanca @addphia.ncc and ancy Gruver, 2127

Columbus Ave., Dulu1h. M 55803,

nancyg@newmoon.org

REUNION NEWS: Miriam Josephson Whitehouse write , "The piric of the lass of '75 liv on, and, evidently, we have quire a reputation. urrenr rudenc who were as igned co "help" u during Reunion were my reriou ly well informed about our former

escapad . They eemed to be eager to cc what we mighc do nexr, bur we were well behaved, ar lease judg­ing by our own candards. arurday night' parry wa greac wich Dad

ome Home, rhe band featuring our own Bob Gould, who wa joined by guest vocali r Dario Coletta. How'd they ound? Well, we were rill dancing ar 2 a.m., which i more than we can say for ome of the younger class . Hats off

co Mark Warren for all hi hard work planning our reunion."

Mark Warren, reunion chair, reports char 55 lassmar arrended Reunion and dan ed co rhe ound of Dad me Home. "The week­end was full of fun, fri bee and friends reuniting."

Sylvia estor wrires, "Thanks o mu h for all of your hard work

on Reunion. ktails ar Plant and the ro parry fure were funcasri and our rudenc volunceers were parci ularly great. nee again, the

lass of '75' parry our-rocked all other with the incredible band Dad me Home, feacuring BobGould and Dario Coletta. Too much fun! Had a greac rime seeing you all, and I look forward co a gathering of all '70 cl es in a fewyear ."

Roger Farrington enjoyed 24 hours of Reunion. " rear co eeeveryone from the I of Fri beerill having a good rime."

Patty Reilly had a great rime atour 30th. "I always enjoy eeing oldfri nd and inceraccing with peoplechar I didn't ger co know during our shorr rime ar . Our clas has alway had a colorful repurarion and knack for gening inco trouble. We certainly rai ed a few eyebrow , even at thi rage, as we marched in the alumni parade. And we proved char we can still dance all nighc -highlighced by Dario inging omof our fuv . My nC\vs: we moved co Bo con' ouch hore on che orrh River. Ir i beautiful her , making chc move easier afcer 20 year in CT Ir was ri ky leaving my job,

class notes

policical career and many friends, bur the new hou e has made ir all worch ir. My husband and I have five kids between us, and che lase one i finally going away co college chi fall. We are nor worried abouc mi ing chem though - with o many kids, omcone always wanes co come back home."

Cay Young-Sebastian wrices, "Thi year' reunion was peccacular becau e I aw Debbie Thomas-

mith and her on, Alron, whom I have nor een in eon ! Then there was the chance for me and my hu -band, Mark ebasrian, co vi it with Estella Johnson and her hu band,

ekazi Mringwa. We all mer for brunch ac our home ac 8 a.m. on

unday with plan co go co church afrcrwards, bur omchow we had coo much to char abour on the break.fusr deck and didn'c say our goodbyes uncil afrer noon. Thanks co all the alumni office raff and vol­unceer for organizing another great reunion. ee you on our 35th!"

ince re-uniting at our 25th, D area alums ora Richter Greer, Elaine Lang Cornett, Margie Ro enbaum Kasimer and Carrie antore have been gercing together for brunche , reas and movi . arric, Margie and Elaine mer up with Tlill Rein ch and Jane Thomp on Rein ch, ue Case, Kathy McGlynn Rutkow ki, Paula Zuraw, Laurie Garden and many other old friends ac Reunion chi year. "le was a great weekend, bur we mi ed all of you who didn'r make ic. We don't plan co wair another five year before gerring rogecher again o come ce us in D !"

Lindsey C. Miller writes, " o real new new . I'm wilh everyone el e, crying co put children through colleg . Had fun ar Reunion ralking ro friends I've kept in couch wi ch and pending rime wich classmates I've never connected with."

Carrie antore has been in the D area for the pasr 25 years work­ing f, r the govcrnmenc and in chc

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GETTING MARRIED?

EXPECTING?

We'd like co help you cele­brate, but we can't print new about anticipated wedding or babie . When your plan become reality, please lee your clas corre-pondenc know, and we

will gladly print your new .

defen e indu cry, mo r recently as an independent contra tor. he aw Darcy Gazza Jones and her hus­band, Richard, when they vi iced the D area in June.

cher new : Mark Warren will be participating in che annual Pan­Mass hallenge to raise money for the Dana Farber ncer In tituce in Bo con. Thi i Mark's 11th year of riding in chis evenc. Mark hope co rai e 6,000 himself- an amazing goal! He'd love to hear from anyone who want more information. (esne.cc@ net.nee)

Annual Fund: $82,464, 43%

7 6 Cormpondmts: Kcnnclh Abel, 33 W. 19th t., Apt. 28. cw York. I 00 I I, kcnn6 I 6@aol.com and usan H:IZlchurst Milbmrh, 5830 . Galena c.,

rccnwood Village, 8011 I, hmilbrath@2ol.com

30TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

Rick Allen cill live in Fr. Lauderdale (aka Paradi e) and prac­tice law in Miami, hoping chac after 26 year of practicing, he will get it right ome day. Rick play golf as often as po sible. He trav­eled to Israel in Feb. co vi it hi daughter, who was studying there for che year and chen cook a two­week crui e wich his wife in April co celebrate cheir 25th wedding anniver ary. "I can't believe chat next year, G-d willing, our on will be off co college (and daughter, coo) and we will be 'empty nester . ' "

Rick k cps in couch with Ken Abel and recently aw ott Vokey '77 on hi visit to FL. He urges all class­maces to call or write and cop by for a vi it, " pecially when che cold winter weather cesr your crengrh."

Bill Eldon has been wich the Farmers In urance roup for 19 years, upervi ing a team of cus­tomer ervi e claim rep and doing a lor of training of new hires in che Beach ici Claims ervice nter in Long Bea h, . When not working, he's pr idenc of che Long Beach Junior rew, a crew c m for high-chooler . Ider son Andrew has been rowing wich the ceam for four year , and Bill is learning co row on weekends. Bill al o ings with the Long Beach horale and Lhe choir ac c. regory' pi opal

hurch. Andrew is a enior, and Matthew is a freshman in che PA E program at Long Beach Polytechnic High hool. Bech is in her fifth year ac alifornia race U., Long Bea h, coming up for tenure next year and working around the clock co gee her research publi hed and all tho e exam graded. Bill was in ew London brieAy cwo years ago during a trip East and aw Bill Morrison and indy rooker '75.

Kenneth Kabel and family continue co be well in incinnati. "The paper box bu iness i doing fine chese day , and as a family we've been able to travel to ome nice places. My wife, arol, and I are crying to pa k in as many adventures as po ible with our cwo teenage daughters, ages 15 and 13, during che few year they are till living at home." Ken recently vi ic­ed with John Zeiler '74 in where they toured the newly re­opened Museum of Modern Arc. He cries co sray in regular cou h with Jo ie Burke-Perl '75, Andrew Hemingway and Kevin Durkin.

ancy Her hatter write , "Thi ummer I bought myself a nine-foot, midnight-blue kayak, wich which I incend co explore the lak of norchw tern CT as well as

70 ( C: l (l!'.-..:ll Tll I l 01 lfGt \.Ut.UIM fAI l lff\

the inlets of Long Island ound. I also wenc whic -wacer rafting on che Delaware in a chunderscorm. le was awesome, as the kid ay. I am still teaching music in ngli h, panish and Hebrew and loving ir. on Jeremy, now a 17-year-old en­

ior at Danbury High, cook driver education chi ummer as well as aikido, piano and cleccri guitar.

Bernard McMullan jusc began erving hi ccond cerm as president of the Trenton Board of Educacion, guiding a di trice chat was apparenc­ly peccacular (weren't they all?) 40 year ago and chen began a mind­numbing decline for everal decad . The past ix years have hown a remarkable recovery, buc

Bernard hopes co improve stan­dard further. He now contem­plates ch pro pecc of college enroll­menc for hi old c child and writ , "Wasn't life impler when we were applying to college?"

77 Cormpondmts: Kimberly-Toy Reynolds Huh, 1000 . Lake horc Dr., Apt. 05, hicago, IL60611. KimToy @aol.com and Paul (Pablo) Finmauri c,

017 Evans hapcl Rd., Baltimore, 1D 21211. twiplo@prodiro•.net, Dan Booth

ohen, danbcohcn@rcn.com

In '73, onneccicuc liege tuirion wa 3,500 per year. If chat queezed your parent , you rode in

friend ' car , bought u ed books and scraped off dinner place ro make ends meec. Today cuirion runs 42,000 year, and we write the checks. uch!

Jeff Hamilton report from che woods of north PA chat his three teen and one preteen are behaving tl1emselves as well as he did ar cheir age . Way to go, Jeff. Brian

ullivan and Eileen Buckley '75 telegraphed Jeff chac they are leav­ing their laced roof rone barn in Milton, MA, for a new hou e fea­turing indoor plumbing and a chree-scory central raircase chat has be n called "a running piece of architecture." The cwo familie revisited the old day on a hared

vacation chi summer. ikko and Jim McGoldrick

(married 25 year with cwo smart, afe and fun teenage children) write

hi corical romances and u pense thriller under the pen names, Ma>• M oldri k and Jan offey. For mor information, vi it Jan offey.com.

Buoying Michael Bromley's pirits i an eldesr daughter with

cwo more year at Tufts and a youngest on with cwo more years in diaper . He did rake a vacation a few years ago.

Mike "Senator Blutar ky" Duggan i coying with running for

ongress in '06. Tom Kadzi '78 notes chat he i noc even in our class and request we refrain from further d poi ling of his good name in chi column.

Pam and George Hulme report chat their accumulated good behav­ior enabled chem co pay ruicion at pre cigious colleges for all three children. After 12 more emescers they will tare catching up on ome well-deserved debauchery.

For submi ion co our next i ue, include omeching co assi c your fellow alum in remembering who the hell you were (e.g. BiU Gordon i remembered for driving a hotrod and throwing water bal­loon ac crangers or David Jaffe played " randpa" in che campus production of "My &al Father: A Lizard Named Fred'). Then cell us che highlight of your 40 .

78 Cormpo11dmt1: rric Wilson, 31 Brook,•icw Rd., Holliston, MA 0 I 7 6, n�wbold@aol.com and usan lef

Tobiason, 70 Park Termcc East, Apt. 41, ewYork, Y 10034, 10biason

@web1V.ne1

In honor of ocial Work Monch 2005, Susan Calef Tobiason was named " ocial Worker of che Year" for lumbia-Pr bycerian Medical

encer. u an was nominated by her colleagues for her 15 year of dedicated ervice on a unit chat care for pacienc wich heart, kid-

nc:y, and r pirarory failure. Carolyn alband.ian Fn.op i

the co-founder of a con umer prod­uce company called Warer • en arion . "le is the fir r of itkind, clear liquid Aavor enhancerfor warer, wirh no ugar, carbs orcalories and all narural fruit Aavor­ing ." For more informarion onhow an Engli h major rurned�rockbrocker rurned enrrepreneurt k an idea and ran wich ir, vi itwww.watersensacion .com

79 Cormpo11dn11: Michael Fi hman, -.1 raigmoor Road, Wes, Hanford, CT 06107, michad_b_fishman@uhc.com

0 Cormpomlmr: Tony Linlcfidd, 108 Hilltop Dr., hcs1cnown, ID 21620.tlirt1eficld2@washcoll.edu and Connie mi1h Gemmer, 180 lenwood \-.., Portland, M 0 I 03, connic@bartongingold.com

REUNION NEWS: early 70 members of ch lass of '80 rook a break from cheir daily lives co hare memori of favorire cl es, profes­. or and campu acrivirie from ome 25 years ago. lassmares trav­

eled from places as far away a London, hicago, WY and co carch up on career , travels, kid and even grandkid . everal of our cla smare even have children, nie e or nephews attending Connecticut ollege!

During rhe class dinner held arurday night, class President Scocc

Hafner (provider of fine wine) and Reunion - hair Connie Smith Gemmer exhorted che class co share their rhoughcs on college days and midlife cri es. Few would admit co a midlife cri i , bur the con ensu eemed ro be rhar turning 30 was a

difficult milesrone. Many former chwiff's were in

arrendance and neacly managed co duck onnie' ugg tion that rhcy ing a number for old-time' sake. uring the dinner, cl1e class reached

its goal of raising a considerable class gifr of I 60,000 in honor of

our reunion year. Earlier on arurday, many of

our clas enjoyed a lunch-rime crui e co Fi her I land organized by Laura- icole ovick Goldman and Jonathan Goldman. The rui e provided many happy but unburnt face .

Evening a civities were capped by variou dorm gathering and a

ro parry (held on cop of ch for­mer vimming pool), parking the inevitable memories of toga parties of old.

Thanks are offered co all who made ic possible, including Reunion - hair Lore Regalo Musser, Jud Dayton, WendyH Brown Farber, Tim Dempsey, Barb Marino Kenny and lass Agenr hair Anne Verplanck.

I, Tony Littlefield, wi h co thank Beth Hardie elson for erving as class corre pondenr with m for ch lase five years. le was a pleasure working with her.

Your cl mar would love co hear from chose who were unable co make it ro our reunion, and we wel­come your new . We al o heartily encourage our friend from the class of '77 through '84 ro write co their class correspondents. Many fond memories of friends from ocher classe were hared as well!

The lass of '80 sends sympa­rhy co rh family and friend of Deborah Gray Wood, who passed a, ay on 8/26/05.

Annual Fund: $159,060, 50%

81 Cormpo11dm1r. Jeffrey Michaels, jmichad@c:ipaccess.org and Laura Allen, 232 ummit A" nuc, Apr. WJ03, Brookline, MA 02446, lallen@ invesr.com

25TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

82 Cormpo11dm11: Deborah alomon mith, 2 6 Lori Lane, orwalk.

06851 and Eliza Helman Kraft, 3707 E 17th Ave.. akland Park, FL 3333 ,

cjhquigley@aol.com

83 Cormpo11dm1: Elizabeth rccne Roos, 5 Buchan Road, Andover, IA 01810, lizandmikcroos@comcasc.nc

Krista Rosseland wanson and husband Robert had a baby girl on 6/7/05. Her name is Annika Mae, and he weighed 7 lb ., 2 oz. and was 21 inch long. All is well!

My husband and I, Liz Greene Roo , arrended a Red x game in June wicl1 &lie Taylor Rathbone and her husband. The x lo c, but we had fun! As was reported in rhe ummer · ue, Edie arrended nn'

graduation rhis year co see her niece, lai re 1:-iylor, receive her degree. laire was born in March of our en­

ior year, and Edie can till remember her brother calling her Harkness dorm room with rhe news! in e

laire is a double legacy, her parents, Elizabeth amble Taylor '77 and Peter Taylor '78, presented her wirh her diploma. As a relative, Edie got co ir in rhe VIP section and had a second-row view of rhe ceremonies. The bagpipes for rhe proc ional still give her goose bump !

Laurie Hoffma rook a job lase year as president of rhe Friends of Young Achiever , a nonprofit group char upporrs rhe Young Achievers cience and Marh Pilot chool, a

ciry-wide Boscon public K-8 piloc hool in Jamaica Plain. he lov

the hool, and che facr chat it i part rime, which allows her co work on her photography. Laurie has been howing h r photograph around

Boston for five years and has joined the Atlantic Works Gallery, a collab­oraciv gallery in Ease Bo con where he lives. he would love co hear

from her classmac and can be reached ar ljdesinz@aol.com.

Lisa Tropp Fitzgerald proudly gave birrh co her nephew, Kyle, on 4/28/05. he acred as a urrogare for her i cer, Dana, who lives in MD and was unable co carry a child herself. Li a, her husband, and on Brian, 9, Eric, 6, and ceven, 2, were very proud ro give uch a gift of love co her i cer and her hus-

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band. They will forever hare a pe­cial bond with chi beautiful child.

Eric Jacobson relocated ro unny eneva, wiczerland, after I 0-plus year in London, slaving away in banking and financial ofr­ware. He i now managing direcror for Forti Prime Fund olucion ( ui e) ARL, wirh r pon ibiliry for ermany, wiczerland, and Austria. Eric would be very happy co hear from his fellow alumni at efjacob on@hocmail.com and might even welcome a gu r or rwo!

Please end your news co Liz at rhe e-mail address above!

84-Cormpondmts: Lucy Marshall andor, 251 Katydid Ln., 'l ilton,

06897, lucysandor@aol.com; heryl Edwards Rajpolc. 17 Pheasant Ln .. Monroe, CT 06468, rajpolt@us.ibm.com; and Liz Kolber, 00 East 71st 1., SL,

cw York, Y I 0021, li:zkprinc@aol.com

85 Cormpondmt: Kathy l':mon-� ,lliams, 2126 E matiUa ,., l'orcland, OR 97202.Ka1hyPIJ@aol.com

cott Brenner was recently appoinred co a senior level po icion at ALK Te hnologies in Princeton,

J. cott works do ely with thechief rechnology officer and rhe VP of business development where he is responsible for rechnical project management of everal high tech­nology product , and core love che cool cell phones and Po ker P h gee co play with. He' pleased co be back in rhe Princeton area again, and welcom people co concacr him ar brenner@arr.ner.

Annual Fund: $62,000, 35%

86 Cormpo11dt11t: Barbara Malmberg, 560 ilvcr ands Rd., Unit 1303, East Haven, CT 06512, malmberg2@aol.com

20TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

87 Cormpondmrs: Jenifi r Kahn Bakkala, 51 Wesson Terrace,

orthborough, IA 0 1532

J KBJndP n aol.corn and Jill Perlman Picnko,, 103 Barn I lill L.1nc, cwington,

06111, jrpcrlrnan@sne1.ne1

88 Corr,spo11d,m: Nancy Bcaney, 925 uuer 1. /120 I, San Francisco, 94109, nbc:me)-@aol.com

cott Sawyer had a case before the U. . upreme ourc, Keio v. ewLondon, che first eminent domaincase heard by che upreme Courr in-o years. The argument rook placein Feb. '05. "While I did nor argue rhe ca e, I wa involved in rhe preparation and rook my ear ar theargument cable; a such, I was ablero receive my upreme ourrquill . Thi even-year legal barcleha been quite an experien e."

cocc, hi wife and rwo children recently moved ro roningron, Cr

Steven Bemer married cephanie White on 7/30/04. ceven reaches high-school English in an Jose, .

cephanie is a rudenr ac canford's raduare chool of Business. They

live in Menlo Park,

89 Corr,rpo11dm1: Deb DormanHay, 5821 . 22nd r., Arling!On, VA 22205, ddorman@alum.conncoll.edu

My life has changed more in che past three month chan ic has in the I 6 year since graduation. ur third child, Elizabeth Audrey, arrived on cax day. I quit the job char I have held ince graduating from wenr back ro chool co gee certified co reach secondary math and am now crying co figure out what I real­ly wane co do with my life. Part of me wane ro work, bur pare of me cannot rationalize paying Ill)' entire alary ro either the government or

daycare agencie . And Audrey is very dclighrful, so ic would be fun ro scay home with her. In any case, for cho e who e-mail new co me, please be ure ro use my ddorma n@al um.con ncol I .edu address, a s my old work address will surely bounce back!

Helen Bird i still in Pari and "crazy busy." he was accepted co

72 C Hl',,ll l11 l I lllllll,I \Hl,-,/1'-I IAII 1111

one law school in France and is awaiting news from orher chool .

he is al o in a program ar the In cirure for ompararive Law ( . of Paris II Panchcion- as) and is working at a law firm. he is also caking pani h! ( K, Helen, you've convinced u of rhe crazy busy pare!) rhcrwi e, he is having fun going co fashion/arr openings and parrie . he heard from Henrick Takkenb rg '88, who was in the mid r or launching a new album in

pain! Helen wa hoping ro ele­brare with him at the laun h party!

Ac ording ro Helen Dewey, there i "nor coo much co report updare-wi e." Bur mo c of chi was new 10 me! Helen' hou e i cill improving, and Beatrice (her dog) oncinues to live the good life chas­

ing squirrel and car . Helen is now working ac rhe ver on Mu cum of Arc a the development direcmr.

he aw Andrew Bechgaard lase May in London, and he periodical­ly ro se parhs wirh Wendy and Jeff Dorfman, who are both well and busy.

Chesca Sheldon Mayser i busy living an ordinary uburban life in Mooresrown, J. The endless s hlepping of her daughters (Lucy, 6, and ophie, 3) 10 chool and variou activities i imerrupred only by end­less, unanswerable questions. "Is the rooch fuiry big or little?" "Do babies come ouc of your belly burcon or your borcom?" "� hat kind of meac is thi , llama?" And, of cour e che ubiquimu , "Why, Mommy? Why, Mommy? WHY?!"

Joelle Patten is living in Lafayecre, C (jusc our ide Boulder), wich hu band hri Wood (they were married in Aug. '04) and dog, Luna. he has a new job ar Johns Manville as the "e-busi­ness leader."

Kathy Grinnell Peila e-mailed me on 3/17 /05 ro ay, "Today my on, Manhew, turn I. l never

announced he was born! He ha an older broth r Jo eph Uoey), who will be 4 in May (I did announce

him!). We are cill living in Plymouch, MA ('America' Homerown'), and I am rill wirh Bo ron Private Bank, where I've been for I 3-plu years."

Ann Wortman had some new about herself and ome friends. he recently gor cogecher for a girl day our with Wendy Fischer Magnan and Beth Ladwig Leamon in Id

aybrook. Bech i working ar a law firm in ew Haven. he and John Leamon have a daughrer, laire, who will be 4 chi year. Ann al o keep in couch wirh Gusty-Lee Boulware and Allan Decamp, who are living in eartle and are che proud parents of Amber icole. Ann re endy tarred her own usrom gifr bu in . The urpri e In ide, which i doing very well. Vi it ir at www.tl1esurpri ein ide.com. Ann i al o happily cruising around romn, MA, in a new Pontiac G6, compli­men of prah Winfrey! Ann was ac

prah' season premiere show in hicago when she gave away cars co

everyone in c:he audience!

90 Cormpondmr: Kri tin Lofblad, 53 I Franklin 1.. ambridgc. MA 02139, klofulad@ omca\l .net

REUNION NEWS: Stephen Crowley and Maura hea rowley '92 had their ccond child, Kieran James, on 2/21 /05. He joins older sister Ellie, 4. "He'll have play­mate , a Jessica Berman Bolger and Jon Burt bocl, had baby boy abour one month afrer I did, Devin Bolger and Alden Bure. We al o finally bit rhe bullet and boughr our fir c hou e, a sweet arc and craft bungalow in Arlington, MA."

Sharon Shafer Spungen wrices, "Things in my life have definirely changed ince I became a rwo-boy mom. ( Iy oldest son is 7; my youngest i 4-I I __ ) horcly afrer my youngest was born, I mpped prac­ticing law here in rand Rapids, MI, and became a cay-ac-home mom. In an efforc ro gee fie, I discovered Taekwon Do, and n r only did I

earn my bla k belr chi epc., we just opened our own TF ( . .Taekwan D Federarion) certified martial arr hool! We are Big Dog Taekwon-Do. Look u up ar www.big dogckd.com!

Talk about full cir le! John Clark ceach in che music deparc­menr ar ! He wrir , "I have also been bu y wirh my band ( www.wolverinejazzband.com) which released ics fourch and fifth CD chis year. In addirion, we just com pieced a project of original mu ic wirh d,e compo er, rock singer hris Trapper of che Pushscars."

Afrer clirec and a half fabulous year in Buenos Aire , Sandy Albrecht Wun.burger and her family are moving back co

leveland. "Anyone vi iring, please look u up. ow I'll be clo e enough 10 arrend reunion !"

Stefanie Zadravec was a Tennessee William holar ar che

cwanee Writers onferen e chi summer, where he worked with Romulus Linney and Daisy Foore. Her play, "Haunted," was produced twice in ' by the Barro\ roup and the Sounding Theatre. And yes, she i the pray 'n Wash L1dy on TV.

le was grear co see so many famil­iar fu es ar Reunion. I am happy ro report rhac we are all more or I aging ar the same rare, which i reas­suring. I was glad 10 reconnect with omc of rhc "al' crew," including

John Rubin, Mare Neary-Rubin, Al SaJvaco, Karen Mossman SaJvato, Ken Rosen, Thad Ring,

hesca heldon Mayscr '89, Ernesto Mayser and other .

On che unday of Reunion, I ran inro Emily Kessler, Miles Ladin, and Andrew Donaldson ar Abbocc' . (Remember their hot lob­seer roll on a hamburger bun?) I nceresring co hear abour o many different experience : living in the ciry, living in the country, marriages and divorces, children and interest­ing careers, from ar hicecrure and phomgraphy 10 musi therapy and greeting card making. Looking for-

ward ro eeing everyone ar our 20th! Annual Fund! $13,133, 29%

91 Corre1po11dm1: Amy Lcbowirz Rosman, Amy Ro man, 120 Round Hill Road, East Hills. Y 11577, ro man@an.n r

15TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

Turiya Manheimer Levy writes, "I've been our of couch ince gradu­ation, o here' a quick updare of che lase 14 year . I moved back ro VT, where I helped wrire and pro­duce a community theater produc­tion, worked as a clienr advocate for developmentally delayed adulr , and worked ar the Au tine chool for rhe Deaf. In '97, I penr nine month in Belem, Brazil, teaching Engli h and rouring the Amazon. In '99, I pent rwo weeks in che ho pica! and wa diagno ed with bipolar di order. Luckily, lithium has worked marvelously co keep my

mood table ever ince. In '03, I married Marcos Levy. (We have the romanti hi rory of having mer at the town dump!) Marco ceache life-guarding, make movies, does ound recording but mostly teaches

piano. I rea h fourth grade. We live in hrewsbury, Vf. Contact me at Turiya@vermoncel.net."

Heather Pierce Stigall and teve Stigall had their fourth child,

Brennan Patrick, on 6/9/05 ac 8:09 p.m. He weighed 7 lb ., 6 oz. andjoin older ibling aiclin,Alexander, and Kendall.

JilJfan Avery Maver and hu -band John had a baby boy, Andrew

usrin, on 5/ 12/05. He join older i rers Hannah, 5-1 /2, and Zoe, 3.

They are doing well and enjoyed pending time in ewporr, RI, chi ummer.

Amy Demetre Carrasco vi iced Rachel Daum Humphrey and her fumily in Aclanra in April. Amy rill works for rarbu ks and liv in earcle with her hu band, hri ,

and daughter, Mia, 2-1/2. Rachel, who i till a lawyer, and husband

corr have a daughter am, 4. Amy

also pent a long weekend with Carla DeLuna Allen and her hus­band, Jay, in Kan as icy after a busin trip everal month earlier. Carla is till a chool principal. Amy, Rachel and rla hope tO ger their families rogerher oon, as ir has been rwo years ince rheir lasr gathering in earcle.

atalie Fine married Mark Margoli on 4/9/05 at the Americas o iecy in Y . Jill Avery Maver

was acalie' maid of honor, andJulia Novina did a reading duringrhe ceremony from The VelveteenRnbbit, one of aralie's favoritechildhood rorie . Ocher classmatesar the black-tie event incl ud dAnjuli Basu and Sue Giurleo. Irwa a pecial evening for acalie'mom, Bonnie Ro s Fine '62, as shehad the chance ro introduce rwo of her friends, Dara Zeiber Perfir'62 and Jo Levitt VanderK.loor '62,ro che lass of '91 conringenc!

aralie and Mark pcnc their hon­eymoon in Australia, which includ­ed an excursion ro Ayer' Ro k, where chey trekked ch rough rl1e

urback on a camel ar unri el Two m nths after their wedding, the newlyweds igned a concracr on a grear pre-war aparrmenc on Manharran' Upper We t ide.

atalie continues ro work as an associate director in the lobal Media Relacion deparrmenr ar IBM Bu iness Con ulting ervi e.

Congratulations ro lass Correspondent Amy Lebowitz Rosman and husband David, who weloomed chi rd child Lauren Cecilia on 7/19/05. he was 7 lbs., 2 m., and 21 inches long. Lauren joins big brothers Ben, 5, and Daniel, 2-1 /2.

9 2 Cor,-,,po11dtm: Liz Lyn h hency. nncccicut College, 270

Mohcg:tn Ave., �• London, CT 06320, dchc@conncoll.edu

Maura hea Crowley and rephen rowley '90 had their econd child,

Kieran Jam , on 2/21 /05. ee '90 no res for decai I .

Jen Cahalane tefani and Kri refani '93 welcomed econd

daughter hloe Eileen on 8/24/05. he joins big i cer Lucy, who will

be 3 in ov.! Russell Yankwitt and wife

Deborali welcomed rheir first child, Aden, chis winter. Afrer working as a corporate la,vyer in large firm in

C for years, Ru now works as a federal pro ecut0r for rhe U .. Arrorney' Office in . He wa r cenrly in che new paper f, r er­cling a case against Y , where the city was accused of discrimination, and for his seeding cases against individuals who defrauded the gov­ernmenc after 9/ 1 l. Ru ell loves hi job and is happy ro be able ro give back ro hi community. Russ, Deb and Aden live in Westchester,

, where they see Marshall afer, Karen Baker and Joanne Guerrero-Georgalas. onta t him at Ru ell@Yankwicr.com

Adair Kendrick Look moved ro an Franci co with her husband and on. They both fini hed resi­dencies (Adair in psychiatry and her husband in ER) in Bo ron and are working in ho pical in the Bay Area. he peaks often with Maria ValJucci Maxwell, who i doing well and living on Long I land with her rwo hildren and husband Mike. Adair aw Liza Livingston and hu band Jo e lderon (al o a psychiarrist!) in April after they had their first baby, Marcelo. he also saw Leslie Traba King and hus­band am in July in an Franci o and Rohn MacNulcy and wife

haron. Rohn finished his exams and is a licen ed archirecr!

Jennifer Davidson writes, "T hings are great in Danbury, I recently penr a girl weekend in Au tin, TX, with Heidi McCotter, Jodi Mannarino Hurd and Annie Bossany Kirsch. Everyone' doing well, and we had a fubulous time car hing up with each ocher."

Jennifer Amerling married eoffrey Mile on 9/25/04 on reat Diamond Island, ME. Kim

class notes

Elliott was brid maid and deliv­ered a heartwarming roasr, recount­ing rim hared ar . Jennifer and eoff have been living in r. Thomas, Vl , where they are build­ing a home. Jennifer teaches pre-K ar Antill chool in c. Thomas and is working on her master' in early childhood education. Jennifer and Geoff enjoy being on the water on the weekends and race their sail­boat frequently in the U . . and Briri h Virgin I land . Jennifer till spends mu h of the summer in M on Grear Diamond I land and would love co hear from anyone vis­iring in ME or VT.

Leslie Traba King lives in Atlanta and works as exe ucive pro­ducer for Headline ew . he is in couch with Liza Livingston, who lives in ew rleans with new baby Marcelo and husband Jo e Calderon. (Liza, please write and lee us know how you and your family are doing po r-Karrina.)

Dan Callahan and Erica Bos Callahan had their third son, asey Daniel, in Jan. Dr. Ka[!ina Sanders delivered him! Casey join big brothers Tucker, 4, and Jack, 3. They are till at uflield cademy in uflield, , where Dan i direc­tor of markering and exrernal affairs and the golf coach.

Tracy Cashman enjoys life in me Bo ron area. he ees tacy Strangfeld Benham and Susan Regan regularly and had lun h with Jennifer Quigley-Harris in July.

Dana Wasserman Woolton writes, "My husband, Randy, and I have been back in earcle for a year after pending a year in London. I gave birth ro raham Emmert on 11/28/04, and it has been the mo r wonderful experience!" Dana i staying ar home with her on, although he may go back co reach­ing yoga at ome poinr.

ngrarularion , Dana!

93 Cormpondem: Michael Carson, 143 Appleton ucct, #2, Bos,on, MA 021 I 6. c:trson.michad@comcas1.net

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Mark Warren '75, John Alderman '76 and trustee Kevin Wade '76 (pictured, from left,

above) cycled the last 35 miles of the Soldier Ride, a 4,200-mile cross-country bicycle

event that raises funds to support wounded American soldiers. Many veterans, some

with missing limbs and prosthetics, participated in the coast-to-coast ride. The three

CC friends rode the last miles to show support for the soldiers. The event raised more

than $500,000.

Kris Stefani and Jen ahalane refani '92 welcomed econd

daughter hloe Eileen on 8/2 /05. he joins big si rer Lucy, who will

be 3 in ov.!

94 Com':fpondmt: Tika lanin, 1628 uth � estg;ue Ave., Apt. 210, Los Ang les, \ 90025, rikamanin@yahoo.com or amds94 a. s1hoo.co111

Dana Rousmaniere and MarinelJ Yoders Rousmaniere '95 wel­comed William Pre corr on 5/17/05. ee '95 notes for derail .

Raymond Flynn married a rah Trecarren on I 0/20/0 .

Raymond works at Team ne Mortgage in orrh Kingsrown, RJ. arah is a phy ical rherapisr. They

live in Warwi k.

9 5 Cormpo1ul,11t: ·,cphanic � ilson, 4501 Park I n Rd. Apr. 325

t..LouisPark I 5- 16, swilson a bazoomcr.com

Bethany Goldstein married Justin a ks on /3/04.

7 Ct 1 ,1,�1 fh l 1 (II ll LI I \1,1\ll'f f .,1 l oo

ra.ig Morrison married Patricia rubb . raig works at Rez I in ewrown, MA. Parricia works at

nowbound frware in Warcrrown. They live in eedham.

MarineU Yoders Rousmaniere and Dana Rousmaniere '94 wel-omed William Pre c re on

5/17/05. He weighed 7 lb . 11 oz. and was 20 in hes long. Dad, mom and baby are doing well. "He i named for hi marernal grandfurher, who i named after hi ance ror

olonel William Pre corr, the Revolutionary � ar hero of 'don'r fire until you ee che whites or rheir eye • fame. William i al o rhe name or d,e new baby' uncle, grear-uncle and grear-grandfurher, o he i fol­lowing in good foot rep ! In order ro differenriare from rhe many Will , Bill and Billy char prolifer­ate the Rousmaniere/ Yoders/ Downey clan , and as a nod ro hi lri h heritage, chi lirrle guy will be known as Liam!"

Annual Fund: $16,396, 34%

96 ormpond,1111: Lisa Paone, 27 606 1.oui,e O'Grad) Dr., ·augus, MA 01906, paonc% ,, ·ahoo.com and G rctchen human, 0 Heer tree1 #5, 80�1011, /\IA 02109. g,human7005@)'ahoo.com

10TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

Alex Gold mith and hley Douglas were married on 7/10/04 in Bridgehampton, Y. Alumni ar rhe wedding in luded lay Rive '97, Winston Miller, Margot Murphy '99, am Bigelow '99, Eliz.abeth Glynn Fahy, Jeremy Barbin, Matthew Malone, Melis a lau Malone and Dhuanne hmirz Tansill '64.

Martin Lund and Lilina Blanc (now Blan o de Lund) were married in Lilina' home city of Maracaibo, enezuela, on 1 l / 13/0 . They mer in Maracaibo in '00 when Marrin was working there as a ire manager on a power plant upgrade. They now live in

rlanta, where Marrin works for E Energy as a commercial manag­

er. Lilina is an arrorney. Amanda Toronto married

Jonathan ri col on 12/11 /04 in Y . Amanda i an a demic advi -

er ar , where she i pur uing her Ph.D. Jonathan i rhe deputy direc­tor or d,e Bard liege Program on

lobalizarion and lnrernarional Affuirs. They live in

97 Cormpo11d,m: Ann Bevan l lollos, l 3 Bea on ·ireei # l 05, Brooklin , MA 02446. annbevan2.� '' yahoo.,om

Jamie Kleiman married Andrew Brooks on I 0/ 16/0 in

n 9/4/0 , Meg Barry married Peter Hoffmeister in a ceremony per­formed by haplain Megan Kelly ac the rde Tenni lub on Lake Washington. ddirional alumni at che wedding included Meg Ryan, Jess Ar hibald '95, ara hields,

aral, ansom William '96, Katie uJlivan Remley. Peter and Meg

mer nex1 ro an erg at rhe Pocock

Rowing enrer. He is in wire! m bility for ingular, and Meg i rill with LuxuryReal • rare.com. In

July '05, they bod, brought hom everal medal from rhe rowing

events ar the World lasrers am in Edmonton, Iberra. !leg never thought he would be a "world row­ing champion" ar age 30!

Matthew Hyotte married arherine Parker on 2/ _6/05 on

the i land of ieq uei., Puerto Ri o. Matthew i a corporate law asso i­are in rhe London ffice or hearman & rerling.

98 ormpo11d,im: lee lodd, 2106 Paul Edwin Ter. "'202, bll hurch, A 220 3. artod 89@y:ihoo.com and bby

lark, 179 Prospect Park � es1 # L. Brooklyn, Y 11215, abigailbclark@hm­mail. om

Evan Coppola graduated from Western ew Engl,md allege

hool or Law in May '04 and was sworn in as an attorney in MA las1 Dec. For the past few years, he was working in rhe Legal and

omplian e Department of i rers or Providence Health y rem in pringfield, MA, bur moved north

at the beginning of er. ro rake a po irion as isrant general coun el for Blue ro and Blue hield of V1� " a health are lawyer and aspiring ki bum, I ould nor ask for a better opportunity. I regret lo ing rouch with many good friends and would love to hear from them at cir-umloquiror@yahoo.com."

Dorothy Plechaty received her MBA from 's tern hool of Business. he till keep in roud, wid, Agnes Orlowski, wh is in law school in H, and Erin Juhl, who is attend­ing graduate sch I in London.

Rebecca Libert married alvarore Ale ia on 12/31 /04. amel in ancndance in luded amanrha hullo Frigiani '99, hrisrine Holr '97, Eliz.abeth Lee

Knott (maid or honor), Rebekah Morin, Eliz.abeth Johnson and Katharine Loughlin Gibson. Rebe ca i a criminal defen e arror-

ney and is working on her master's in elementary education. Her hus­band, al, is an attorney as well. They live in Bayside,

Holly Hawkins recently left the posirion of director of the Mari rime Gallery ar Mysric eaporr (after even years) ro pur ue chool­ing ro become a jeweler. he will be arrending the arch Benner treer

chool, in rhe north end of Boston, where she is al o living. ("Ir isalf the ize of my waterview apartment in toningcon for rwice the price!") he keeps up wirh Betsy McStay,

who moved ro Blackburn, VA, ro arcend ver school. "Bersy is srill competing in rriarhlons, and encourages me ro join her, bur she is roo fasr for me!" An odd bur happy coincidence occurred when Holly ran into Courtney Diamond at a gas cation off 1-91 in Vr! Courcney live with her boyfriend in Id aybrook, CT, and they were en route ro a. motor­cycle weekend getaway. Holly al o keeps in rouch wirh Mary Gorman, Mike Johnson, Josh Fasano, Megan Kelly '97, Je Diecz '00 and Brit Adams '99. "I would love to hear from any alums in rhe Boston area, particularly if they are inro rowing, which l plan to resume once I ger serded."

Rosie Tighe finished the first year of her Ph.D. program in urban planning ar the U. ofTexas. One of her papers was publi hed in Aug., and he'IJ be presenting anorher at a conference in Jan. Drop her a line ar ro iet33@hocmail.com.

Alec Todd has finally made the jump from rhe country life of Raleigh, C, and is (after seven grueling years) moving co D . While ir will be sad ro leave friends in Raleigh, he is extremely excired ro fi11ally ger ro the ciry ("and, final­ly, a place where people a rually want co vi ir!"). He'll be living in Falls Church, VA, right next ro the metro, o any visitors would be more than welcome!

Gabriel Nanda and achy

Bellavia '99 were married in Aug. '03. ee '99 nores for derail .

99 Corrrspo11dma: Megan Teppcr­Rasmusscn. Kent chool, I Macedonia Rd., Kent, CT 06T7, 1cppcrm@kent­chool.edu and Danielle LcBlanc Ruggiero, djlcbG@hocmail.com

Laura Nevitt married hrisropher Anderson on 7/19/03 in Branford CT. Wendy Spencer was maid of honor, and Amanda Abraham Pilletere was a bridesmaid. Al o arrending the ceremony were Kim

Mueller, Dave Abrams and Rory O'Dea. n 6/ l 1 /04, Laura and Chri had a baby boy, Ryan.

Bethany Waywell Jay writes, "I was married on 7/J0/04 to Hunter Jay in Rockporr, MA. Alison Lindblom was one of my brides­maids and Christina-Maj Takahashi Just and raig Hirokawa '98 arrended. I am work­ing on my di erracion ro finish my Ph.D. in history ar Boston College."

Jeffrey McCarthy married Michelle Marsh on I 0/ 16/04 in WesCJllin cer, MA. Jeff is a software engineer ar lmpac Medical ysrems in Cambridge. Michelle is a pre­scl,ool coordinator ar Plowshares Education Development Center in

cwton. They live in Watertown. ongrarulations ro Cathy

Bellavia and Gabriel anda '98, who were married on 8/23/03. (A wedding announcement and pic­ture ent after cl,e ceremony never made ir ro the magazine.) They boasted 38 amel ar their wed­ding, including Robin Mancu o Talamo '96, Vin Talamo '97, Hiran Kuru '97, Melissa Nelson, Abby

arlen '00, Brian McNamara, Vanessa Griggs '96, Ken Tyson '97, Gretchen Lacournre ' 00, Toby Fenton, Brie St. Laurent, Elizabeth Amarante, Marr Vivian, James Benet, Joseph Dubb '98, lain Baker '98, Elizabeth Ethridge '00, Danny Liu, Lincoln Tracy '00, Jaclyn Ortiz, Vivek Dhingra '98, Frank asraneda '00, Tyler Roberts, Lodi Bond '97, Ciaran

Tyrrell, Malik Burke '98, Mike Noon, Yung Kim '97, hi Chan '98, corr peiJ '98, Marr Kelly '96, Eman Ro iter '97, Arif iddiqui '97, Erik orensen '00, Damian Morse and Mike Kelly '96. achy (who goes by Cathy anda) and Gabriel live in earde, WA.

00 Comrpo11dm1J: Jami D antis, 37 hcstnut T rec Hill Road, outhbury, CT 06488, jldesami @hocmail.com and Karie rephen on, 278 Meridian Srrcet, Apt. 15. Groton, CT 06340, kstc78@hotmail.com

Annual Fund: $6,922, 30%

01 Cormpo11dm1J: John Barri,ta, 77-4 Au tin treet #2D, Forest Hills, NY

I 1375, jgbat@hormail.com and Jordana GusraE on, jordanarosc@hormoil.com.

5TH REUNION June 2-4, 2006

Stephanie Matthews complered her ma rer's in Engli h at the Victoria U. of Manche rer, England, and will begin work on her Ph.D. in medieval tudies ar the U. of Bristol, England.

Having worked for a variety of inrernarionalJy oriented nonprofits for a few years, Luke Johnson returned ro school and is halfway rhrough rhe MA program ar rhe George Washingron U.' Elliorr

chool of lnrernarional Affairs. He's also working ar the univer iry' center for Asian tudies, where he edirs a series of occasional papers and works on the center's finances.

02 Corrrspondmrs: Kacic McAlaine, kemcalainc@yahoo.com; Melissa Minehan, 54 East 3rd t. # 11, cw York, NY 10003, melissa.minchan@gmail.com and Lylia Tyrrell, 6324 ouchwood Ave.

#2 , ,. Louis. M 63105, lntyrrcll@wulaw.wus1l.edu

Deven Sisler writes from London, "The volunteer rhearer group 1 work wirh, Theatre Amoeba, ha been invited by a relief group, Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team, ro go ro Indonesia co bring 'thearer aid' to hundreds of families

class notes

THE DELTA CHAPTER

OF PHI BETA KAPPA

will award cholarships of approximately $1,000 each

co onnecrictut College alumni, including mem­bers of the Clas of 2006,

during the 2006-2007 academic year. Alumni

wishing co apply for one of the cholarships can find

the requirements as well as an applicarion at

hrrp:/ /ca.mel2.conncoll.edu/ academics/pbk

living in relief camps in Banda Aceh, umacra, following rhe r unami." Theater aid combine performances, workshop and col­laborarion ro provide relief through creative expression and entertain­ment. Thearre Amoeba is an inrer­nacional phy ical theater en emble char strives ro create visual and interculrural performances char transcend language barriers. If you would like more information on the project, please contact Deven at divo_sizzle@yahoo.com or vi ic theacreamoeba.expage.com.

03 Corrrspondwa: Melissa Higgins, 15 lark c. #3, Boston, MA 02109, melissa_higgin l3@hocmail.com and Leslie Kalka, 42 Francesca ,.. omerville, MA 02144, ljk319@hocmail.com

Sara Asselin has been an acting com­pany member ar the Jean Cocreau Repertory, an ff-Broadway rep the­ater in ' Bowery in the Easr Village. The ocreau Rep has been producing classical cl1earer exclusively for 35 year . ara has appeared in eight plays ar che Cocteau, including "The Wtld Duck," "The Bourgeouis Gentleman," "The Three Penny Opera," "Pygmalion," "Intrigue and Love" and, mo t recently, Berrolr

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Brecht's "Mother ourage," which received rave review . Thi� winrer, he will play the ride character in August rrindberg' "Mi Julie," whid1 runs

at the Bouwcric Lane Theater from Feb. 11-March 25, 2006. Although dassical and contemporary cheater is her passion, ara i also a voice-over arrisc. ara live in Brooklyn wirh musician Ian Abrams and her dachs­hund, lliott.

Q4. Correspondmts: Kelly M all, kjmcc@conncoll.edu and Elizabeth able, • ,..,b@conncoll.eduJordan Gear

y was as ociare producer and underscored the mu ic for an episode of MTV' hi r show, .. Made." He i now working as a producrion coordinator, making carroon with the company Animation Collective. He lives in

05 Cormpondmts: Cecily Mandi,cccil)'.mandl@gmail.com Jnd teph.111ie .1vJgc. smsav@conncoll.edu

Obituaries

Betty Gitlin '30, of Anaheim, A, died on 6/13/04. he i urvived by her i rer, Adelyn irlin Wilson '37, two nieces, and everal grand­nieces and nephew .

Doris Taylor Piper '30, from 1eriden, T, died on June 10.

Dori i survived by one son, seven grandchildren and five great-grand­children. he was predeceased by her hu band, Ralph.

Jane Benedict '33, of Yonkers, Y, died on June 20. A former trade

unionisr, Jane was acrive in housing issues for four decades. he helped found the 1ecropoliran Council on Hou ing, a Y tenanrs' right organization, and was ics d1airwoman for many years. In '82, he ran for governor as a member of the Uniry

Parry. Predeceased by her husbai1d, Peter Hawley, in '96, he leaves one son, one daughter, rwo grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Rum Hawkins Huntley '33, of chaumburg, IL. died on June 14. he was 93. he was a reacher ar olumbia Grades chool for more

than 20 year . urvivor include rwo ons and rwo granddaughters. Her husband, Thomas, died in '83.

Doromy KeUogg Stewart '33, or orwich, CT, pas ed away on July 21. A roology major, Dorothy's micro ope lidc were exhibited ar rhe ollege and at rhe Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. The widow of A.

Morgan tewarr, she and her hu -band owned a real esrare and in ur­ance business and, in later years,

rewarr Mobile Home arden . Afrer her hu band' death, Dorothy tarred rhe A. Morgan Srewarr

Memorial Library at the orrh ronington Hi torical ociery's rephen Main Home read. he vol­

unreered as a librarian there for 16 year . he leavei ;,vo sons; a daugh­ter, Peg rewarr Van Patten '87; a repson, nine grand hildren and

numerou gr ar-grandchildrcn. Catl1erine Woodward Curtiss

'35, ofHamilron, OH, died on July 3. he wa pre eded in dead1 by herhusband, Daniel, in '84. urvivorsinclude rwo daughters, one on,four grandchildren and nine grear­grandchildren.

Marion Littlefield Fisher '37, of York, ME, died on Feb. 28. he volunreered for rhc Red ross in RI, driving paricnr co medi al appoinrmenrs. he was preceded in death by her husband, Jerome, in ·oo. he leaves one on and [WO grand hildren.

Jeannette Dawless Kinney '38, of Maple len, PA, died on May 6. he was employed for more than 20 year by rhe nursery chool of hevy ha e Presbyterian

hurch in MD. Her husband, Douglas, pa sed away in April. he leaves rwo sons, one daughter, eighr grandchildren and four grear­grandchildren.

Elizabeth Andrew Helming '39, ofBristol, CT, died on May 16. he wa predeceased by her hus­

band of 56 years, Anhur. urvivors in lude rwo son , rwo daughters, even grand hildren and rwo grear­

grandchildren. Rum Brodhead Heintz '39,

of hevy hasc, MD, died on I 0/21/04 ·

Doromy Clements Downing '39, ofTopsham, ME, died on April 19. She was a graduate of Columbia

chool of ocial Work. he leaveone on. one daughter and four grandchildren. Her husband, Morron, predeceased her.

Clarissa Weekes Bu.rgevin '41, of incinnari, died on June 30. he wa devorcd to rhc arr in

incinnari and was a member of the incinnari ymphony lub and rhe incinnari Art Mu cum. he was

co-founder of the onnc neut ollege lub of incinnati. Her

hu band, John, predeceased her. urvivors include a daughter, one

son and a granddaughter. Elizabeth McNicol Kelting

'41, ofByran, J, died on April 12. he i survived by her husband of

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64 year , Roberr, one on, four daughters, I I grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Eleanor Harris Emigh '42, of Kirkwood, MO.died on July 18. he leave her husband, ommander Ward Emigh, duce on , rwo daugh­ters, nine grandchildren and two grear-grandchildren.

Alice Watrous '49, of Groton, CT, died on June 27. he earned a master' degree in education from

olumbia U. and raughr nur cry chool and kindergarten in Groron,

retiring in '79. Ali e is urvived by four sisters, niece· and nephew .

he was predeceased by a brother and i rcr.

Sarah Bauemschmidt Murray '45, of Gales Ferry, T, died on June 17. he was named Volunteer of the Year in Ledyard, where he volunreered as a rutor at rhe high chool. he and her hu band, ruart

,co-founded rhe Ledyard Alcohol and Drug Awarene ommirree.

he al o erved on rhe Ledyard o ial ervices board, was a mem­

ber of Women in afe Hou es, andran a afe home for troubled teen .

he leaves her husband of 52 years,one brorher, duce on , eighrgrandchildren and rhree grear­grandchildren.

Joanne (Joey) Dings Haeckel '51, of corcsville, A, died on May 21. Following graduarion, sheworked for ew York LifeInsurance ompany for four yearsbefore marrying husband Jerry in'56. After rai ing their fumily inDallas, Houston and Denver, Joeyand Jerry moved ro consvillc in'82. Joey became involved in manyacrivirie , including her churchchoir, the harlotre ville gardenclub and rhe Farmingron Counrry

lub, in addition to helping her hu band run rheir 250-acre furm. he leaves her hu band, duce son

and even grand hildren. Betty Gardner Wyem '51, of

Needham, MA, died on June 13. She re eived a ma rer' degree from Harvard ai1d raughr in public schools - including a year in rraubing, Germany- for almo r 20 years. he changed careers in '81, working as a compurer programmer for John Hancock Life Insurance Company, retiring in 'O 1. he leaves one daugh­rer, one on and rwo isters, Carol Gardner Errman '54 and Rurh Gardner Haq '"2. he was preceded in dead1 by her husband, John.

Nan Schlesinger Kempner '52, of Y , died on July 3 from emphy ema. A social page fixture and avid couture customer, an wa known as an unaba hed

clochcshorsc particularly dedicated to designer Yves ainr Laurene. an arrended and studied at rhe

orbonne. he married Thoma Kempner, chairman of che invesr­menr-banking house Loeb Partners, in '52. an donarcd many of her outfits co mu eum and charirie and served on a number of board and charity committee . She worked as a special ediror of Hnrper's Br/Zllnr in the '60s, as a design con ulram for Tiffany & o. in the '70s and a a corre pondcnr for French YVgue in rhe '80 . Her book, R . . V. P.: Menus for E111errnini11gfiw11 People Wlho Renlly K1101u How, wa publi heel by

larkson Potter in '00, with rhe pro­ceeds going ro rhe Memorial loan­Ketrering anccr enter. Besides her husband, she leave rwo on a daughter and ix grandchildren.

Priscilla Sprague Butler '54, of avannah, A, died on Aug. 19. Pri cilia lived mo r of her life in Werher field, r, before moving ro

A and VT. he wa a longtime member of the First ongregarional

hurch in Werhcrsficld and a member of the Daughter of rhe American Revolution. urvivor include her husband, William, one on three daughters and three

grandchildren. Dianne Wheeler Embry '77,

of Rockville, MD, died on June 27. Dianne a trended afrer raising her eight children. he received a master' degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Alliant lnrcrnarional University and worked for many years as a clinical psychologi t ai1d universiry instruc­tor in rhe mental healrh and crimi­nal justice field in CT, CA and he was predeceased b}' her husband

of 34 year , Jewell, and h..:r eldest daughter. urvivors include rhree son , four daughters, 25 grandchil­dren and four grear-grandchildren.

Jose Angel Zayas '81, of Columbus, GA, died on 4/28/03 of a heart arra k. He leave four chil­dren and his wife of 21 years, Deborah.

Andrew Berlowe '84, of Cold pring Harbor, NY, died on April 2.�

Jeffrey WaJler '86, of pringfield, Vf, died on June 30. He

was a chiropractor in pringfield and complered his chiropractic training ar the arional ollege of hiropracric. He losr hi wife, Laura, on Jan. 8 ro eaticer. urvivors include rwo daugh­ters, one son, a isrer and his parents, Thomas and Ruch Waller.

· Full obimnry 1111n11nilable rtttime of publicntion.

Vedat Gashi '01. Larry Corwin '77 and Larry's mother Patsy

Goldman Corwin '47 in Kosovo earlier this year. Vedat is chief legal

advisor for the Ministry of Local Government Administration in

�osovo. Larry is the counselor tor public affairs at the U.S. Mission in

Kosovo. Patsy was visiting.

a 11= ;

From left: Georgia Howe '58. Kristin Stahlschmidt

Lambert '69 and Judi Bamberg Mariggio '69. The

three met in June in Montecalvi outside Florence, Italy,

while vacationing.

class notes

Sara Asselin '03, left, in "Mother Courage"

at the Cocteau Rep in NYC. See '03 notes

lor details.

Rosie Tighe '98, Erin McKenna '98, Amy Haskell '00 and Kate Lussier '00 recently got together at

a dude ranch in Austin, TX, where Rosie lives. For more information on Rosie, see '98 notes.

the wedding.

Natalie Fine '91 married Mark Margolis

on 4/9/05 at the Americas Society in

NYC. See '91 notes for more.

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: announcements : : : : : l • erve on the alumni board • Curious about the college l !. The nomina1ing commirrec of rhe admission process? !. onnecri ur allege Alumni sociarion The 15th annual Alumni ons and! i accepting name of candidare for rhc Daughrers admission program for college- i ! Alumni o iarion' Board or Direcror bound junior in high hool will be held !l for 2006-2007 and for rhe furure. Please on unday, February, 12, and 1onday, l ! ubmir your nomination ro Bridger February 13, 2006. o- pon ored by che j I :�:,;;��-!:"�f ::7J"�:'::;;�;" ;;,l�

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;�;l1�;F;�ll�::d'.:;,�;��::· I· ,or c 1e e eccive co lege a mission pro e ·! • Presidential search Applications for che program will be l i onne ricut liege is seeking nomina- mailed in mid-De ember. The co c i 0 i l cions for irs I 0rh pre idcnr in irs 9 -year per family filled on a firsr- ome fir c- l \ d I d b , I d 'r: I \ i

hio:�:·i�e�,re 1!a�r:�aby ;;L:S::e ally �::,or:;n;:r�1�ri�: i;�e�; :�nr:::i ies.

i ! u man '8 and Phil 1cLoughlin P'02 ociacc Director of Alumni Relarion j ! &'05, inv ire nominarion from rhc cam- Liz heney '92 at elchc@conncoll.edu. ! ! pu communiry, alumni and ocher ! j friend of 1he ollcge. ame or candi- • A student waits for you to act j : dare and derails or rhe sear h proce reare an inrernship for a onne ci ur : l \1vill be held in onfi1dednce. 1 1dc I bollege smdcnr ac your workp11 a c. In l· 1tcp://www.connco l.e u/pre i enria - o cure rerrirories , in mecropo ican · ! scar h/ for more informarion on che region , funded or unfunded, no job area j \ earch and insrrucrion on how co nomi- is coo mundane or roo furferchcd. onra r \! narc a candidare. alumni@conncoll.edu or 860-439-230 I ! ! for derail . l : .............................................................................................................................................................. :

ALUMNI AWARDS

The Alu11111i Relnriow Office is seeking 110111i11mio11s far the mvnrds listed bel.oiu. Your 110111i11n­rio11, together with n11 0111/ine of the cnndidnte's qunlificn1io11s, should be sent to Bridget Mc hnne, Director of Alrmmi Re!ntions m bamcs@comrcoll.edu or 800-888-7549, ext. 231./, by Februnry I, 2006. Candidates should 1101 be told that their nnmes hnve been submitted. These nwards will be presemed nt the Reunion Annunl Meeting in June 2006.

The Harriet Buescher Lawrence '34 Prize Thi prize was escablishcd for rhc purpo c or recognizing our randing onrr ibucion co ocie­ry by any member of chc onne ricur allege communiry. The candidate will have under­taken norable leader hip in changing ocicry for che bctcer and in pired ochers for good, ch rough direct ervice or through changing che climate of human life maccrially, ocially, ethically or piricually. The candidate's life a hievcmenr will have equaled or urp ed chose by ocher leaders in che field of endeavor and rcAc red che values and education in rilled in graduares of onnec1icu1 ollcge. The Alumni Tribute Award Esrabli hcd in 1986, che Alumni Tribute Award i given co an alumna or alumnus who has given su rained and extraordinary ervice ro onncccicuc liege. While ervi e mu L be in keeping wich purpo e and spirit of che Alumni As o iacion, ic may be given by means ocher rhan acrivicies iniriarcd or pon orcd by rhc Alumni As o iarion. ominee cannor be cur­rently employed by the Alumni As o iarion or che ollegc or be members of che Alumni o iarion Board of Direccors. ominees muse be approved by che Alumni Assa iacion Board or Direccor . The Agnes Berkeley Leahy Alumni Award This award, esrabli hed in 1961, honors alumni who have oncribured of oucscanding erv­i e dcmonscraced by continued interest in rhe Alumni ociacion and susrained acrive par­ri ipation in lass, club, or Board of Dire rors acrivitics. andidace muse be member of a class char graduated at least fifreen years ago and may nor be current member of rhe Alumni ociarion Board of Directors or be presently employed by the ollege. 78

The Office of Alumni Relations

would like to thank the following

alumni for the time and effort they

contributed to Reunion 2005:

1940 Barbara Wynne Secor, Frances Sears Baratz

1945 Patricia Feldman Whitestone, Natalie

Bigelow Barlow, Nancy Bailey Neely

1950 Alice Hess Crowell, Joan Pine Davis , Lyn

Raub Creedon

1955 Joan Barkan Antell, Gretchen Hurxthal

Moran, Julia Evans Doering, Jessie Rincicotti

Anderson, Jane Dornan Smith, Frannie Steane

Baldwin, Joan Frank Meyer, Mutty Williamson

Barhydt, Mimi Dreier Berkowitz

1960 Eleanor Saunders, Nancy Bald Ripley, Jean

Chappell, Louise Lane Talbot, Millie Price Nygren

1965 Susan Peck Robinson, Lois Larkey, Leslie

Setterholm Curtis, Karin Kunstler Goldman, Carole

Lebert Taylor

1970 Susan Lee, Martha Sloan Felch

1975 Mark Warren, Tom Hallett, Richard Cutting,

Miriam Josephson Whitehouse, Lindsey Miller,

Patricia Reilly

1980 Scott Hafner, Walter Hauser, Lore Regolo

Musser, Barb Marino Kenny, Jud Dayton, Connie

Smith Gemmer, Tim Dempsey, Wendyll Brown

Farber, Anne Verplanck

1985 Sharon Ephraim, Ted Root, Libby Marston

Twitchell, Paul Stueck

1990 Emily Kessler, Kevin Cuddihy, Ellen

Christian-Reid

1995 Deirdre Eschauzier Hennessey, Lisa Gladke,

Molly Wilcox Ingle, Zach Manzella

2000 Mike Muller, Ause Dyer IV, Beth Kaechele

The Office of Alumni Relations would also like to

thank the following alumni for hosting events

this summer: Connie Bischof Russell '91, Liam

Russell '90, Mark Fiskio '79, Gail Finnerty

Fiskio '78, Elizabeth Grenier '91, Peter and

Dorette Sacripanti P'08, Rae Downes Koshetz

'67, Barbara Zaccheo Kohn '72, Robin Moll

Wright '78, P'08, Wendy Stark Morrissey P'03,

Lynda Batter Munro '76, Dhuanne Schmitz

Tansill '64.

UPCOMING

EVENTS For more information about these and other alumni events, please

visit the Office of Alumni Relations Web site at

www.conncoll.edu/alumni/ or call 800-888-7549.

2005

December 8 Southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island alumni holiday party at the Chester House, Westerly, RI.

December 11 Annual NYC alumni holiday party hosted by Cathy Kaufman lger '75 and Mark lger '75.

December 14 Connecticut Club of Boston at the Holiday Party, Algonquin Club of Boston.

2006

January 28 Women's basketball game vs. Tufts University at 3 p.m. The game will be followed by a reception for bas­ketball alumnae.

February 4 Men's alumni basketball game will take place at 11 a.m. followed by lunch. Men's varsity basketball vs. Bowdoin College at 3 p.m. Contact head coach Tom Satran '94 at 860-439-2565 or tsat@conncoll.edu formore information.

Men's alumni ice hockey game at noon, followed by lunch.

February 12-13 15th annual Alumni Sons and Daughters Admission Program

October 13-15 Fall Weekend 2006

June 2-4 Reunion 2006

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ATHLETIC\AALL 2005 Inductees

Established in 1989. the Athletic Hall of Fame was created to honor those who have brought distinction to them­

selves and Connecticut College through their achievement. commitment. sportsmanship and leadership in athletics.

This year"s induction ceremonies for the following alumni took place on Saturday, October I, as part of Fall Weekend:

KIM-AN HERNANDEZ '99 soccer, lacrosse

One of 1he only Connecticut College .uh­lcrcs ro leaJ rwo reams ro the NCAA Tournamenr (both made 1he Elite 8 round), Hernandez captained both the soccer and lacrosse squads. As a soccer J\11-

Amcrican, she is rhe program's all-1imc leading scorer (44 goals, 19 assisrs, I 07 points); and she rallied 93 goals, 25 assists, I 18 points for the lacrosse ream.

MEG GAILLARD '95 soccer, sailing

A� an All-American sailor who helped the Camel squad maintain its national promi­nence, Gaillard won the New England Championships (A Division) and qualified for nationals three times in addition to playing four years of soccer. She went on w represent the U.S. Sailing Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

PETER DORFMAN '84 basketball

One of 1he College's first rccruired blue­chip basketball players, Dorfman was a dominating player and three-time ream MVP who graduau:d with 1,257 career points (before rhe three-poi111 shot) and 817 career rebounds while helping the squad earn respect in New England.

CHIP ORCUTT '84 ice hockey, soccer

One of che progenitors of a growing ice hockey program in its early years, Orcutt helped set the foundation for the team's lacer success, graduating as rhe squad's all­rime leaJing goal-scorer (63 career goals). r\ rwo-sport :11hle1e, he also earned MVP honors, anchoring the men's soccer team as goaltender.

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